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Frankenstein, Science Fiction, and the Poetry of Science
Title
Frankenstein, Science Fiction, and the Poetry of Science.
Creator
Davis, Peter, Faraci, Mary, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
While Frankenstein has recently received criticism weighted heavily in politics, gender, and feminist studies, what gets overlooked in these discussions is that Mary Shelley's novel remains a story about science--not about empirical science, necessarily, but about abstract science. As science fiction, Frankenstein incorporates fictional science to posit truths about the human experience. Shelley's metaphor for the novel, ''my hideous progeny," reminds readers to respect the uncertain elements...
Show moreWhile Frankenstein has recently received criticism weighted heavily in politics, gender, and feminist studies, what gets overlooked in these discussions is that Mary Shelley's novel remains a story about science--not about empirical science, necessarily, but about abstract science. As science fiction, Frankenstein incorporates fictional science to posit truths about the human experience. Shelley's metaphor for the novel, ''my hideous progeny," reminds readers to respect the uncertain elements in invention in the arts and sciences. The problem for Frankenstein that I address has to do with an uncertainty of the terms, "science'' and "science fiction ,'' which results in further uncertainty when discussing the novel's genre and meaning. This essay defines "science," "science fiction," and other important tenns relevant to a critical discussion of the novel. This essay further argues that readers should not overlook the poetry of science in Frankenstein.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000908
Subject Headings
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,--1797-1851.--Frankenstein--Criticism and interpretation., Frankenstein (Fictitious character)--Criticism and interpretation., Science fiction, English--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
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Monsters of their own making: Shelley's Frankenstein and Spark's Jean Brodie
Title
Monsters of their own making: Shelley's Frankenstein and Spark's Jean Brodie.
Creator
Lombardo, Diane Marie., Florida Atlantic University, McGuirk, Carol
Abstract/Description
Two British women writers, Mary Shelley and Muriel Spark, express a curiously similar vision in their novels, creating characters whose solipsistic view of the world finally makes them monsters. Solipsism is the assertion that the self is the only reality that can be known and verified; a doppelganger is a mirror-self or double of the protagonist. The narrative structure and viewpoints in both Frankenstein and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie rely on these two concepts. Victor Frankenstein...
Show moreTwo British women writers, Mary Shelley and Muriel Spark, express a curiously similar vision in their novels, creating characters whose solipsistic view of the world finally makes them monsters. Solipsism is the assertion that the self is the only reality that can be known and verified; a doppelganger is a mirror-self or double of the protagonist. The narrative structure and viewpoints in both Frankenstein and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie rely on these two concepts. Victor Frankenstein journeys through solipsism by first creating his monster from necrotic material--dead "selves." Jean Brodie's solipsistic response to her world is to re-"create" and manipulate her student Sandy Stranger as an extension of herself. Both Frankenstein and Jean Brodie experience a paradox of identity, forming but then conflicting with other characters who become their doppelgangers. In both novels, doppelgangers become "harbingers of death" rather than instruments of insight. Both Shelley and Spark demonstrate that a self-centered perspective leads to destructive isolation and alienation from others.
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Date Issued
1995
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15188
Subject Headings
Spark, Muriel--Criticism and interpretation, Spark, Muriel--Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,--1797-1851--Criticism and interpretation, Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,--1797-1851--Frankenstein
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Rereading Gender and the Gothic in Frankenstein and "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Title
Rereading Gender and the Gothic in Frankenstein and "The Yellow Wallpaper".
Creator
Krol, Jenet Maree, Faraci, Mary, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
Frankenstein and "The Yellow Wallpaper," popular stories of the nineteenth century and included on most college reading lists, have been installed into limited chnons that take away from the art ofthe literature. Written when strict social guidelines ddined and separated the gender spheres, these works show the changing attitudes and resulting social problems for women, between the early nineteenth century (Fmnkenstein) and the late nineteenth century ("The Yellow Wallpaper"). The Gothic...
Show moreFrankenstein and "The Yellow Wallpaper," popular stories of the nineteenth century and included on most college reading lists, have been installed into limited chnons that take away from the art ofthe literature. Written when strict social guidelines ddined and separated the gender spheres, these works show the changing attitudes and resulting social problems for women, between the early nineteenth century (Fmnkenstein) and the late nineteenth century ("The Yellow Wallpaper"). The Gothic genre claims Frankenstein, and since its revival in the 1970s, "The Yell ow Wallpaper" has been firmly seated in the academy under feminist criticism. Each work belongs to both categories, with elements of each attracting more and more readers. Readers can discover that Mary Shelley creates a tale about the horrors of pregnancy and motherhood, while Charlotte Perkins Gilman creates stunning Gothic effects in her short story embraced by feminist criticism.
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Date Issued
2007
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000931
Subject Headings
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,--1797-1851--Frankenstein, Gilman, Charlotte Perkins,--1860-1935--The yellow wallpaper, Gender identity in literature, Feminist fiction, English--History and criticism, Modernism (Literature)--Criticism and interpretation
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Romantic Science: Nature As Schism Between Romantic Generations and As Catalyst Between Romanticism and Science Fiction
Title
Romantic Science: Nature As Schism Between Romantic Generations and As Catalyst Between Romanticism and Science Fiction.
Creator
Helo, Gabrielle, Golden, John, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
After 1815's eruption of Mount Tambora, the following period was named the "Year without a Summer" and experienced irregularly cold weather, failed crops, rampant disease, and riots. In the summer of 1816, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley met in the Alps and wrote "Darkness," "Mont Blanc," and Frankenstein respectively. This thesis focuses on these works' depictions of nature in light of how these features may have been impacted by the climate. It argues in...
Show moreAfter 1815's eruption of Mount Tambora, the following period was named the "Year without a Summer" and experienced irregularly cold weather, failed crops, rampant disease, and riots. In the summer of 1816, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley met in the Alps and wrote "Darkness," "Mont Blanc," and Frankenstein respectively. This thesis focuses on these works' depictions of nature in light of how these features may have been impacted by the climate. It argues in Chapter One that the volcanic eruption caused global climate changes that affected these writers. In Chapter Two, it illustrates differences in nature's representation between first generation and second generation Romantic works. The conclusion synthesizes the arguments made in Chapters One and Two, suggesting that 1816's climate affected these writers in such a way as to produce an environment from which science fiction could emerge in Frankenstein.
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Date Issued
2015
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004504, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004504
Subject Headings
Byron, George Gordon -- Baron -- 1788-1824 -- Darkness -- Criticism and interpretation, Romanticism -- 19th century, Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft -- 1797-1851 -- Frankenstein -- Criticism and interpretation, Shelley, Percy Bysshe -- 1792-1822 -- Mont Blanc -- Criticism and interpretation, Tambora, Mount (Indonesia) -- Eruption, 1815, Volcanoes -- Environmental aspects -- History -- 19th century
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