Baldick, Chris. 1990. In Frankenstein’s Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing. Oxford: OUP. ISBN 978-0198122494 [Book]

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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.

Item Type:	Book
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	English and Comparative Literature
Date:	1990
Item ID:	12879
Date Deposited:	25 Aug 2015 12:19
Last Modified:	23 Jun 2017 13:55
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/12879

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