What shift in critical consideration of Frankenstein occurred
after 1970?
What critical shift occurred after 1990?
238:
Explain: "The novel remains a fit in both high and low culture"
(238).
Explain Percy Shelley's suggestion that the creature's crimes are "'the
children, as it were, of necessity and human nature'" (Qtd. in Smith 238).
239:
What "three levels of reader" does Percy Shelley describe (239)?
240:
Explain: "Goldberg reconciled its popular elements with its high
moral seriousness, thereby closing a gap between low-culture and high-culture
status" (240).
241:
Explain: "After 1990, some scholars based claims for Frankenstein's
high-culture status on its literary rather than its philosophical lineage"
(241).
242:
Explain: "Frankenstein's technique of first-person narration
demonstrates the three narrators' solipsism and thereby avoids the 'Romantic
cliché' of lonely alienation" (242).
Explain: "In these Freudian terms the creature, Victor's doppelgänger
or double, is the id (instinctual self) repressed by the ego (conscious
self) but escaping to act out the ego's subconscious desires" (242).
243:
Explain: "The novel's tale-within-a-tale structure was a kind of narcissism,
the pathological egoism that turns the outer world of Others into a mirror
of the self" (243).
Explain Lacan's concepts of the Imaginary and the Symbolic.
"Bonus"--What is the third term Lacan uses, to discuss the first stage
of development?
244:
Explain: "They exemplify the limited or domestic feminism in which
women's roles and qualities are highly valued but severely restricted to
the domestic and 'complementary'" (244).
247:
Explain: "The bull market in 1990s cultural criticism of Frankenstein
is the new turn in studies of its science" (247).
