SOURCE: "Bearing Demons: Frankenstein's Circumvention of the Maternal," in Bearing the Word, University of Chicago Press, 1986, pp. 100-19.
In the following chapter from her Bearing the Word, Homans uses the tools of feminist psychoanalytic theory to study Frankenstein as a parallel between writing and mothering. In this view, Shelley becomes a champion of maternal nurturing, and the novel an indictment of the male desire to reject or excise the maternal role altogether.
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