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In Frankenstein's Wake - Mary Shelley, Morality and Science Fiction (Paperback)
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In Frankenstein's Wake - Mary Shelley, Morality and Science Fiction (Paperback)
Series: Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Just over two hundred years ago on a stormy night, a young woman
conceived of what would become one of the most iconic images of
science gone wrong, the story of Victor Frankenstein and his
Creature. For a long period, Mary Shelley languished in the shadow
of her luminary husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, but was rescued from
obscurity by the feminist scholars of the 1970s and 1980s. This
book offers a new perspective on Shelley and on science fiction,
arguing that Shelley both established a new discursive space for
moral thinking and laid the groundwork for the genre of science
fiction. Adopting a contextual biographical approach to understand
the factors that enabled Shelley to create Frankenstein, and
undertaking a close reading of the 1818 and 1831 editions of the
text, gives readers insight into how this famous story synthesizes
many of the concerns about new science that were prevalent in
Shelley's time. Using Michel Foucault's concept of discourse, this
work argues that Shelley should be credited with not only the
foundation of a genre but recognized as a figure who created a new
cultural space for readers to explore their fears and negotiate the
moral landscape of new science.
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