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In Frankenstein's Shadow - Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing (Paperback, Revised)
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In Frankenstein's Shadow - Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
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This book surveys the early history of one of our most important
modern myths: the story of Frankenstein and the monster he created
from dismembered corpses, as it appeared in fictional and other
writings before its translation to the cinema screen. It examines
the range of meanings which Mary Shelley's Frankenstein offers in
the light of the political images of `monstrosity' generated by the
French Revolution. Later chapters trace the myth's analogues and
protean transformations in subsequent writings, from the tales of
Hoffmann and Hawthorne to the novels of Dickens, Melville, Conrad,
and Lawrence, taking in the historical and political writings of
Carlyle and Marx as well as the science fiction of Stevenson and
Wells. The author shows that while the myth did come to be applied
metaphorically to technological development, its most powerful
associations have centred on relationships between people, in the
family, in work, and in politics.
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