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Gender, Authorship and Male Domination : Mary Shelley’s Limited Freedom in "Frankenstein" and "The Last Man"
Book chapter
Is part of
Mary Shelley’s fictions : from Frankenstein to Falkner ; pp. 95-108.Publisher(s)
Palgrave MacmillanAffiliation
- Université de Montréal. Faculté des arts et des sciences. Département de littératures et de langues du monde
- Université de Montréal. Faculté des arts et des sciences. Département des littératures de langue française
- Université de Montréal. Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les écritures numériques
- Université de Montréal. Canada Research Chair on Digital Textualities
Abstract(s)
Ever since Ellen Moer's "Literary Women" (1976), "Frankenstein" has been recognized as a novel in which issues about authorship are intimately bound up with those of gender. The work has frequently been related to the circumstance of Shelley's combining the biological role of mother with the social role of author. [...]