Frankenstein in Theory

A Critical Anatomy

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7220-9 (ISBN)

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This collection provides new readings of Frankenstein from a myriad of established and burgeoning theoretical vantages including narrative theory, cognitive and affect theory, the new materialism, media theory, critical race theory, queer and gender studies, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and others. Demonstrating how the literary power of Frankenstein rests on its ability to theorize questions of mind, self, language, matter, and the socio-historic that also drive these critical approaches, this volume illustrates the ongoing intellectual richness found both in Mary Shelley’s work and contemporary ways of thinking about it.

Orrin N. C. Wang teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is the author of Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory (1996) and Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History, winner of the 2011 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Frankenstein in Theory
Orrin N. C. Wang (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
1. Last Words: Voice, Gesture, and the Remains of Frankenstein
David L. Clark (McMaster University, Canada)
2. When Jane Met Mary; or, Frankenstein’s Romantic Comedy
Sonia Hofkosh (Tufts University, USA)
3. Frankenstein's Embodied Imagination: Or, the Limits of Embodied Cognition
Richard C. Sha (American University, USA)
4. Non-Binary Frankenstein?
Chris Washington (Francis Marion University, USA)
5. What's Love Got to Do with It? Frankenstein and Monstrous Psychoanalysis
Joel Faflak (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
6. The "very creature he creates": Frankenstein in the Making of Moby-Dick
Samuel Otter (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
7. Finitude, Frames, and the Plot of Frankenstein
Yoon Sun Lee (Wellesley College, USA)
8. Blackness and Anthropogenesis in Frankenstein
Rei Terada (University of California, Irvine, USA)
9. Mediating Monstrosity: Media, Information, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Andrew Burkett (Union College, USA)
10. "A daemon whom I had myself created": Race, Frankenstein, and Monstering
Patricia A. Matthew (Montclair State University, USA)
11. The Smiles That One Is Owed: Justice, Justine, and Sympathy for a Wretch
Erin M. Goss (Clemson University, USA)
12. The Utopias of Frankenstein
Vivasvan Soni (Northwestern University, USA)
13. Is That All There Is? No Regrets (after 1818)
Jacques Khalip (Brown University, USA)
14. Frankenstein in Practice (as Theory)
Sara Guyer (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.01.2021
Zusatzinfo	2 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-7220-3 / 1501372203
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-7220-9 / 9781501372209
Zustand	Neuware