ABSTRACT

An innovative, beautifully written analysis of Mary Shelley's life and works which draws on unpublished archival material as well as Frankenstein and examines her relationship with her husband and other key personalities.

chapter Chapter One|37 pages

In Search of a Family

chapter Chapter Two|14 pages

Making a Minster

chapter Chapter Three|18 pages

My Hideous Progeny

chapter Chapter Four|19 pages

Promethean Politics

chapter Chapter Five|26 pages

A Feminist Critique of Science

chapter Chapter Six|12 pages

Usurping the Female

chapter Chapter Seven|14 pages

Problem of Perception

chapter Chapter Eight|29 pages

Love, Guilt and Reparetion

The Last Man

chapter Chapter Nine|7 pages

Revising Frankenstein

chapter Chapter Ten|36 pages

Fathers and Daughters, or “A Sexual Education”

chapter Chapter Eleven|6 pages

Idealizing the Bourgeois Family: Final Reflections