Abstract
Positions Mary Shelley as an expereimental writer; reads maternal absence in Frankenstein as a Gothic trope connected to the depiction of the maternal body in eighteenth and nineteenth century obstetric textbooks and medical imagery.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Women Writers and Experimental Narratives Book |
Subtitle of host publication | Early Modern to Contemporary |
Editors | Kate Aughterson, Deborah Philips |
Place of Publication | London |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Chapter | 4 |
Pages | 62-89 |
Number of pages | 27 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030496517 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030496500 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2020 |
Keywords
- Literature
- Experimental writing
- women writers
- Frankenstein
- Feminism
- Gender
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Emma Bell
- School of Humanities and Social Science - Senior Lecturer
- Centre for Arts and Wellbeing
Person: Academic