Gender, Authorship and Male Domination : Mary Shelley’s Limited Freedom in "Frankenstein" and "The Last Man"

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Palgrave Macmillan
2000
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  • Faculté des arts et des sciences. Département de littératures et de langues du monde
  • Faculté des arts et des sciences. Département des littératures de langue française
  • Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les écritures numériques
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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. [...]
Sinatra, Michael E., « Gender, Authorship and Male Domination : Mary Shelley’s Limited Freedom in "Frankenstein" and "The Last Man" », dans Michael E. Sinatra (dir.), Mary Shelley’s Fictions : From Frankenstein to Falkner, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000, p. 95‑108.
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