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MacMillan Education UK Frankenstein 1995 Edition by Fred Botting
Emerging from the shadow of popular reproductions, Frankenstein's importance in debates about gender, culture and politics has been dramatically affected by recent developments in criticism and theory. This volume collects the most significant contemporary work on the novel from Marxist, Psychoanalytic, Historicist, Feminist, Poststructuralist and Postcolonialist perspectives. The book reflects the way that monstrosity in its literary, historical and philosophical context raises crucial questions for modern issues of sexuality, class, science, race, language and identity. Table of contents :- Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction; F.Botting.- Production and Reproduction: The Case of Frankenstein; P.O'Flinn.- The Politics of Monstrosity; C.Baldick.- Narcissism as Symptom and Structure: The Case of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; J.Kestner.- What is a Monster? (According to Frankenstein); P.Brooks.- A Feminist Critique of Science; A.K.Mellor.- Bearing Demons: Frankenstein's Circumvention of the Maternal; M.Homans.- Narratives of Seduction and the Seductions of Narrative: The Frame Structure of Frankenstein; B.Newman.- Frankenstein with Kant: A Theory of Monstrosity or the Monstrosity of Theory; B.C.Freeman.- Otherness in Frankenstein: The Confinement/Autonomy of Fabrication; J.E.Hogle.- Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism; G.C.Spivak.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.