Introduction: Frankenstein in theory / Orrin N. C. Wang -- Last words : voice, gesture, and the remains of Frankenstein / David L. Clark -- When Jane met Mary; or, Frankenstein's romantic comedy / Sonia Hofkosh -- Frankenstein's embodied imagination; or, The limits of embodied cognition / Richard C. Sha -- Non-binary Frankenstein? / Chris Washington -- What's love got to do with it? Frankenstein and monstrous psychoanalysis / Joel Faflak -- "The very creature he creates" : Frankenstein in the making of Moby-Dick / Samuel Otter -- Finitude, frames, and the plot of Frankenstein / Yoon Soon Lee -- Blackness and anthropogenesis in Frankenstein / Rei Terada -- Mediating monstrosity : media, information, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Andrew Burkett -- "A daemon whom I had myself created" : race, Frankenstein, and monstering / Patricia A. Matthew -- The smiles that one is owed : justice, Justine, and sympathy for a wretch / Erin M. Goss -- The utopias of Frankenstein / Vivasan Soni -- Is that all there is? No regrets (after 1818) / Jacques Khalip -- Frankenstein in practice (as theory) / Sara Guyer.
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"A collection of essays on Frankenstein written by distinguished and younger scholars of Romantic studies, utilizing ambitious critical theories in literary and cultural studies"-- Provided by publisher.
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