Experiment on a Dissected Reading: Maternal Absence in Frankenstein’s Gothic

Emma Bell; Emily  Blewitt

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49651-7

Experiment on a Dissected Reading: Maternal Absence in Frankenstein’s Gothic

Emma Bell, Emily Blewitt

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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
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	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49651-7
Publication status	Published - Dec 2020

Keywords

Literature
Experimental writing
women writers
Frankenstein
Feminism
Gender

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Women Writers and Experimental Narratives Book: Early Modern to Contemporary. ed. / Kate Aughterson; Deborah Philips. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. p. 62-89.

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