Utopian Studies, January 1st, 1997
Mary Shelley. Ed. J. Paul Hunter. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996. xii + 339 pp.
Few of the readers of Utopian Studies will not have read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, combining as it does science fiction and horror with a glimpse of utopian cottagers. But let me sketch the story and its importance for those who have not read it. In an ingeniously framed fiction, an explorer--M. Walton--bent on reaching the North Pole, comes on a man stranded on an ice floe--Victor Frankenstein--who tells him a terrible story of scientific obsession that includes a third interpolated tale told by the monst...
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