Tag: Shelley
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My Momster/My Self: The Question of Mothering, the Woman Writer, and Autobiography in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”
In her essay, “My Monster/My Self,” Barbara Johnson looks at Frankenstein and two unrelated critical texts with an emphasis on the different critiques each offer of the institution of parenthood. Johnson’s goal in the essay is to “read” the three texts “not as mere studies of the monstrousness of selfhood, . . . but as autobiographies…
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