TY - BOOK AU - Anjana Sharma, ed. TI - Frankenstein: interrogating gender, culture and identity T2 - Macmillan Critical Readers SN - 140392404X U1 - 823.7 PY - 2004/// CY - Chennai PB - Macmillan KW - Literature KW - English fiction KW - Shelley, Mary KW - Science fiction, English KW - Scientists in literature KW - Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft) KW - Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) KW - Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character) KW - Horror tales, English N2 - This anthology contains a collection of essays that query a range of subjects related to gender, to politics, to history, to culture and their combined capacity to forge identity. It posits ways in which Mary Shelly manipulates and recasts the central tropes of Jacobinism and romanticism to create an elaborately detailed plot that breathes psychic violence and despair ER -