In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, And Nineteenth-century Writing - Rilegato

Baldick, Chris

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ISBN 10: 0198117264 ISBN 13: 9780198117261

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 1987

Riassunto

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 relationships, the family, work, and politics.

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• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0198117264
• ISBN 13: 9780198117261
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224