Frankenstein in Theory

A Critical Anatomy

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-07-28
Mått:152 x 228 x 16 mm
Vikt:407 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501372209

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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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A sense of urgency runs through all these essays, persuading us that Frankenstein and his monster matter now. It’s not just that present crises help us think anew about Shelley’s novel, or that it continually challenges the theories we employ. This provocative collection makes the case that Frankenstein compels us to think rigorously about our historical present.

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List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: 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 ComedySonia Hofkosh (Tufts University, USA)3. Frankenstein's Embodied Imagination: Or, the Limits of Embodied CognitionRichard 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 PsychoanalysisJoel Faflak (University of Western Ontario, Canada) 6. The "very creature he creates": Frankenstein in the Making of Moby-DickSamuel Otter (University of California, Berkeley, USA) 7. Finitude, Frames, and the Plot of FrankensteinYoon Sun Lee (Wellesley College, USA) 8. Blackness and Anthropogenesis in FrankensteinRei Terada (University of California, Irvine, USA) 9. Mediating Monstrosity: Media, Information, and Mary Shelley’s FrankensteinAndrew Burkett (Union College, USA)10. "A daemon whom I had myself created": Race, Frankenstein, and MonsteringPatricia A. Matthew (Montclair State University, USA)11. The Smiles That One Is Owed: Justice, Justine, and Sympathy for a WretchErin M. Goss (Clemson University, USA)12. The Utopias of FrankensteinVivasvan 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 ContributorsIndex