... in terms of the march of progress and development of the “inner life” of the nation, Frankenstein offers a different vision of awakening life by turning the novel, as Sara Guyer claims, toward biopolitical concerns with the organization of life and death. In Frankenstein , the wartime awakening...

... unfamiliarity that engendered this response. As the essays in this issue demonstrate, new theories about war and its representation, whether biopolitical, a˜ective, or linguistic, are rede—ning how we understand and experience the violent conšict that has proven, however depressingly, one of the most enduring...