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- Title
Inviting Evil In: Horror Stories and the Monstrous Double.
- Authors
Cantor, Paul A.
- Abstract
The article focuses on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's gothic fantasy poem "Christabel" is typical "in the way that it portrays the monstrous as inextricably intertwined with the everyday. It mentions Coleridge offers a lame explanation for this phenomenon, but the poem itself provides a more direct one. It also mentions Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" monster acts out Victor's buried aggressive impulses, severing his ties with all the people he loves.
- Subjects
CHRISTABEL (Poem : Coleridge); COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834; HORROR tales; SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851; FRANKENSTEIN'S monster (Fictional character); FRANKENSTEIN: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Book)
- Publication
Hedgehog Review, 2020, Vol 22, Issue 1, p48
- ISSN
1527-9677
- Publication type
Article