Love as subject matter in Frankenstein

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.43.073

Keywords:

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, love, fiction

Abstract

A brief study of love as subject matter is proposed from different perspectives in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus (1818). These points of view are: the historical-social in relation to the moment of production, the biographical-literary in relation to the writer and her milieu, and the technical one related to the proposed structure, which responds to the epistolary fiction as sub-genre typical of 18th-century in England. The dynamic between these three aspects shapes the subject of love, linked to philosophical reflections (ethical, aesthetic and political).

From its first anonymous publication – usual in the Romantic period but also lucid, given that its author is a woman – the work has continued to attract and multiply readers/watchers to the present day. The widespread confusion between the names of Dr Frankenstein and his Creature crosses times and cultures, as does its bold and complex approach to human creation and its loving association with freedom.

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Published

27-12-2024

How to Cite

Calviño, M. (2024). Love as subject matter in Frankenstein. Boletín GEC, (34), 199–217. https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.43.073