SOURCE: "An Issue of Monstrous Desire: Frankenstein and Obstetrics," in The Yale Journal of Criticism, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall, 1988, pp. 105-28.
In the densely historical analysis in the essay that follows, Bewell considers the importance of late eighteenth-century obstetrics in relation to Shelley's composition. Returning to an earlier critical theory that the novel reflected Shelley's own experiences with childbirth, Bewell argues that it "represents Mary Shelley's deliberate attempt to introduce an ambiguously female-based theory of creation into the Romantic discourse on the imagination."
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