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02772aam a2200373 i 4500 001 C9EDDBF8DEE811EBB94CC8CD21ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210707010029 008 201110s2021 ncua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020050718 020 $a 1476677808 020 $a 9781476677804 035 $a (OCoLC)1221017450 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d A7U $d YDX $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR5398 B44 2021 100 1 $a Bedford, Alison, $d 1983- $e author. 245 10 $a In Frankenstein's wake : $b Mary Shelley, morality and science fiction / $c Alison Bedford. 264 1 $a Jefferson, North Carolina : $b McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, $c [2021] 300 $a vii, 197 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; $v 72 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index. 520 $a "Just over two hundred years ago on a stormy night, a young woman conceived of what would become one of the most iconic images of science gone wrong, the story of Victor Frankenstein and his Creature. For a long period, Mary Shelley languished in the shadow of her luminary husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, but was rescued from obscurity by the feminist scholars of the 1970s and 1980s. This book offers a new perspective on Shelley and on science fiction, arguing that Shelley both established a new discursive space for moral thinking and laid the groundwork for the genre of science fiction. Adopting a contextual biographical approach to understand the factors that enabled Shelley to create Frankenstein, and undertaking a close reading of the 1818 and 1831 editions of the text, gives readers insight into how this famous story synthesizes many of the concerns about new science that were prevalent in Shelley's time. Using Michel Foucault's concept of discourse, this work argues that Shelley should be credited with not only the foundation of a genre but recognized as a figure who created a new cultural space for readers to explore their fears and negotiate the moral landscape of new science." -- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, $d 1797-1851 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, $d 1797-1851 $x Influence. 650 0 $a Science fiction $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature and morals. 600 00 $a Frankenstein's Monster $c (Fictitious character) 600 10 $a Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, $d 1797-1851. $t Frankenstein. 830 0 $a Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; $v 72. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707014012.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C9EDDBF8DEE811EBB94CC8CD21ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search