SOURCE: "Tales of Transgression, Fables of Industry: Hoffmann, Hawthorne, Melville, and Gaskell," in In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1987, pp. 63-91.
In the essay that follows, Baldick examines "stories of doomed experimenters" found in works by Hoffmann, Hawthorne, Melville, and Gaskell, suggesting that these authors portray various forms of production as self-destructive activities.
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