In the period between 1815 and 1820, Mary Shelley wrote her most
famous novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, as well as
its companion piece, Mathilda, a tragic incest narrative that was
confiscated by her father, William Godwin, and left unpublished
until 1959. She also gave birth to four-and lost three-children. In
this hybrid text, Rachel Feder interprets Frankenstein and Mathilda
within a series of provocative frameworks including Shelley's
experiences of motherhood and maternal loss, twentieth-century
feminists' interests in and attachments to Mary Shelley, and the
critic's own experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood.
Harvester of Hearts explores how Mary Shelley's exchanges with her
children-in utero, in birth, in life, and in death-infuse her
literary creations. Drawing on the archives of feminist
scholarship, Feder theorizes "elective affinities," a term she
borrows from Goethe to interrogate how the personal attachments of
literary critics shape our sense of literary history. Feder blurs
the distinctions between intellectual, bodily, literary, and
personal history, reanimating the classical feminist discourse on
Frankenstein by stepping into the frame. The result-at once an
experimental book of literary criticism, a performative foray into
feminist praxis, and a deeply personal lyric essay-not only locates
Mary Shelley's monsters within the folds of maternal identity but
also illuminates the connections between the literary and the
quotidian.
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