In Frankenstein's Shadow

Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing

By:

Chris Baldick

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Paperback / softback

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.

Release date Australia

June 21st, 1990

Author

Chris Baldick

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

5 halftones

Pages

218

Series

Clarendon Paperbacks

Dimensions

139x217x13

ISBN-13

9780198122494

Product ID

2396011

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