SOURCE: “The Deceptive Other: Mary Shelley's Critique of Orientalism in Frankenstein,” in Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 30, No. 2, Summer, 1991, pp. 255-83.
In the following essay, Lew explores Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as a critique of Romantic ideology as well as of the expansion of the British empire. He focuses on her use of Orientalist motifs and images of the dream maiden and the mother.
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