In Frankenstein's Shadow Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing

Name: In Frankenstein's Shadow Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing
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ISBN: 9780198122494

ISBN-10: 0198122497

ISBN-13: 9780198122494

Edition: 1987 (Reprint)

Authors: Chris Baldick

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The story of Frankenstein and the monster he created is one of our most important modern myths. This study surveys the history of the myth in literature before the advent of film. First examining the range of meanings generated by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in light of images of political "monstrosity" produced by the French Revolution, Baldick goes on to trace the protean transformations of the myth in the fiction of Hoffmann, Hawthorne, Dickens, Melville, Conrad, and Lawrence, as well as in the historical and political writings of Carlyle and Marx and the science fiction of Stevenson and Wells. In conclusion, he shows that the myth's most powerful associations have centered on human…

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List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/9/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 218
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.54" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English