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- Title
THE POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF HORROR IN MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN.
- Authors
Randel, Fred V.
- Abstract
Discusses the significance of the political geography of horror in the novel 'Frankenstein,' by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Rationale for setting the novel's horrors in particular places and arranged in specific sequences; Shelley's inheritance of a usage of the Gothic that foregrounded history and geography; Shelley's use of a geographical subtext of a European Gothic fiction.
- Subjects
FRANKENSTEIN: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Book); SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851; POLITICAL geography; ENGLISH horror tales; 19TH century English fiction
- Publication
ELH, 2003, Vol 70, Issue 2, p465
- ISSN
0013-8304
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/elh.2003.0021