SOURCE: "The Monstrous Body of Knowledge in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" in Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 34, No. 2, Summer, 1995, pp. 227-53.
In the following essay, Rauch reads Frankenstein as "Shelley's critique of knowledge"—specificially of scientific knowledge as a discourse owned, shaped, and frequently misused by men.
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