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The Connell Guide To Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Paperback)
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The Connell Guide To Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Paperback)
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"There never was a wilder story imagined," wrote one reviewer on
the first publication of Frankenstein in 1818: "we do not well see
why it should have been written." The admiring Sir Walter Scott
felt that Frankenstein's "unexpected and fearful events... shook a
little even our firm nerves". The prophetic power of novel's
imagery in reflecting the dehumanising effects of science,
technology, empire, business and the mass media has never abated.
Writing in 2002, Jay Clayton said: "As a cautionary tale,
Frankenstein has had an illustrious career; virtually every
catastrophe of the last two centuries - revolution, rampant
industrialism, epidemics, famines, World War 1, Nazism, nuclear
holocaust, clone, replicants and robots - has been symbolized by
Shelley's monster. Perhaps more than any other novel, Frankenstein
has been interpreted as a warning impeding events." For some
readers these warnings have produced a monstrous creation in place
of Mary Shelley's own. "Frankenstein is a product of criticism, not
a work of literature," argues Fred Botting. Yet if the metaphorical
interpretations of the novel appear to exceed the adolescent
fantasy which gave rise to them, this is in itself a tribute to the
original work, concludes Levine: "The book is larger and richer
than any of its progeny and too complex to serve as mere
background... The novel has qualities that allow it to exfoliate as
creatively and endlessly as any important myth." In this book,
Josie Billington looks at the story and its legacy, and sifts the
vast repertoire of critical opinion to give us the most interesting
verdicts on the novel.
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