SOURCE: "My Monster/My Self," in Diacritics, Vol. 12, No. 2, Summer, 1982, pp. 2-10.
In the landmark essay below, Johnson presents Frankenstein not just as a complex fictionalization of Shelley's autobiography, but more explicitly as a commentary on the nature of female autobiography. "Frankenstein," Johnson contends, "can be read as the story of the experience of writing Frankenstein."
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