In Frankenstein's Wake (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Trade paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Antal sidor
205
Utgivningsdatum
2021-01-11
Förlag
McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensioner
224 x 147 x 13 mm
Vikt
295 g
ISBN
9781476677804

In Frankenstein's Wake

Mary Shelley, Morality and Science Fiction

av Alison Bedford, Donald E Palumbo, C W Sullivan Iii, Iii C W Sullivan
Häftad,  Engelska, 2021-01-11
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Just over 200 years ago on a stormy night, a young woman conceived of what would become one of the most iconic images of science gone wrong, the story of Victor Frankenstein and his Creature. For a long period, Mary Shelley languished in the shadow of her luminary husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, but was rescued from obscurity by the feminist scholars of the 1970s and 1980s. This book offers a new perspective on Shelley and on science fiction, arguing that she both established a new discursive space for moral thinking and laid the groundwork for the genre of science fiction. Adopting a contextual biographical approach and undertaking a close reading of the 1818 and 1831 editions of the text give readers insight into how this story synthesizes many of the concerns about new science prevalent in Shelley's time. Using Michel Foucault's concept of discourse, the present work argues that Shelley should be not only credited with the foundation of a genre but recognized as a figure who created a new cultural space for readers to explore their fears and negotiate the moral landscape of new science.
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Alison Bedford is a sessional lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba, Australia. She is also a secondary school English and history teacher. Her research interests and publications focus on Romantic and Victorian fiction and pedagogy for the teaching of history.

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