Abstract
This prolegomenon to a collection of eleven essays provides a setting for them all by explaining the ongoing significance of Mary Shelley's original Frankenstein two hundred years after it was first published; the theme of multiple “environments” that imbues Frankenstein and its offshoots and that is common to all these essays; the novel's emergence from a generic environment of fiction (the Gothic) that established itself in the 1760s and continues to this day; the history of interpretations of Frankenstein generated by the various theoretical environments in which it has been analyzed; and how all of the following essays, including the particular environments of Frankenstein they treat, both advance that history and fit into the overall scheme of this special issue.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 643-661 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Huntington Library Quarterly |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2020 |
Keywords
- Bioethics
- Climate change
- Cultural studies
- Ecocriticism
- Fantasmagoriana
- Feminism
- Gender studies
- History of criticism
- Horace walpole
- Marxism
- New biotechnologies
- New criticism
- New historicism
- Postcolonial criticism
- Psychoanalysis
- Queer theory
- Race studies
- Summer of 1816
- The gothic
- Villa diodati
- “old historicism”
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- History
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts
- Literature and Literary Theory