... of Nature,” Journal of the History of Ideas (April 2001). She is writing a book on literary and philosophical imaginations of autonomy. The Monster in a Dark Room: Frankenstein, Feminism, and Philosophy Nancy Yousef t is as a giant that the creature makes his first appearance in Franken- I...

... . . . ”) and Tadzio’s concluding gesture brings his analysis full circle, calling for a contradictory yes and no that points to another version of sex and gender: “Jack has quitted him and not quitted him” (123). Noting the Creature’s love of Werther in Frankenstein , Block moves from his Kleist chapter both...

..., Portrait Stories , is forthcoming. The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France . By Douthwaite Julia V. . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2012 . xiii + 317 pp. © 2014 by University of Washington 2014 Ginsburg Review...

... from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley. By GEORGELEVINE. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1981. x + 357 pp. $25.00. Its introduction offers this work as realistic criticism of the English realist novel. While showing himself fully apprised of the challenge laid down...

... science fiction novellas, parodies individ- ualist social theories. It develops a joint critique of social theory and scientific invention by alluding to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which iconically raises these problems. Frankenstein is also one of the earliest works of science fiction, with its hybrid...

... and literary experimentation is well documented, from the Lyrical Ballads poems “to be considered as experiments” (the first such application of the term to artistic work), to Humphry Davy’s experiments with nitrous oxide, to Victor Frankenstein’s grisly experiment creating new life. Though this last example...

... in a spatial realm. Simultaneously that matter also has a temporal character, “historicity in its simplest form . . . that which persists in the future ” (106). Chapter 1 of Romantic Historicism thus reads the gothicism of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as both extension and disruption of Joseph...

...!” (Vol. 2, chap. 7). In the Frankenstein of Godwin’s daughter Mary, Frankenstein and his monster take turns playing Heaven to the other’s Hell. Still more significant, to my mind, is the fact that seemingly more conservative novelists of the Romantic period like Sir Walter Scott and Jane...

... chapter, New Worlds: Frankenstein, The Island, and the Ends of the Earth, focuses on remote geographic locations. Both Shelley s Frankenstein and Byron s nal long poem, The Island, invoke the possibility of establishing communities outside the limitations of European politics by situating them beyond...

... to his emphatic and ambiguous sexuality or his aristo- cratic, exotic glamour, Byron was easier not to see as an overwhelmingly opposite number. That the nineteen-year-old author of Frankenstein was brooding on various family deaths associated with procreation, as Ellen Moers first showed...

.... That chapter, FrankenClimate, is the focal point of the book. It performs a compelling reading of Mary Shelley s Frankenstein, a novel that trades in formal experimentation and acts of narrative interruption while presenting an early re ection on climate change. As Leckie notes at the outset, rst-time...

... of Western Ontario The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley. By GEORGELEVINE. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1981. x + 357 pp. $25.00. Its introduction offers this work as realistic criticism of the English realist novel...

... narrative tradition. For many critics (and even more classroom syllabi), this left Frankenstein as a curiously soli- tary instance of genuine romantic fiction in England. Such recent revisions of this reception history as have occurred can be credited largely to feminist critics, whose excavatory...

... receive critical scrutiny-notably the Gothic novel- have, despite their affiliations with romantic aesthetics, remained hard to place within any coherent, developing narrative tradition. For many critics (and even more classroom syllabi), this left Frankenstein as a curiously soli- tary...

... Gary . Compact Edition. Oxford : Clarendon . Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft . 2007 . Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus . Raleigh, NC : Hayes Barton Press . Smith Adam . 1969 . The Theory of Moral Sentiments . Indianapolis, IN : Liberty Classics . Smith Charles G...

...- bia University Press, 1981. xx + 238 pp. $25.00. Levine, George. The Realistic Imagznation: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1981. x + 357 pp. $25.00. McFarland, Thomas. Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin: Wordsworth...

..., 1981. viii + 96 pp. $9.95, paper. Winston Weathers, “Foreword”; Germaine Greer, “Wordsworth and Winchil- sea: The Progress of an Error”; Joseph Kestner, “Narcissism as Symptom and Structure: The Case of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”; Daniel Marder, “The Pic- turesque...

..., 1985. xii + 247 pp. $25.00. Veeder, William. Mary Shelley and Frankenstein: The Fate of Androgyny. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986. ix + 277 pp. $22.50. Venet, Giskle. Temps et vision tragzque: Shakespeare et ses contemporains. Paris: Pub- lications de la Sorbonne...

... Hopkins Press, 1969. ix + 241 pp. $6.95. Jack, Jane, and Margaret Smith (editors). Charlotte Bronte: “Jane Eyre.” Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, Clarendon Edition of the Novels of the Brontes, 1969. xxxii + 635 pp. $1 1.75. Joseph, M. K. (editor). Mary W. Shelley: “Frankenstein...

... sets texts together, provides significant context, and points out parallels and resonances. But it also leaves some of the think- Keenleyside Review 601 ing to its readers. For example, Brown persuasively argues for reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein...