Frankenstein in Theory: A Critical Anatomy - Paperback

by Orrin N. C. Wang (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

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.