Frankenstein A Special Issue (original) (raw)

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus-conceived by the author in Geneva in June 1816 in a literary contest also involving P.B. Shelley, Lord Byron and John Polidori, and published in 1818 ̶ was celebrated in 2018 by many conferences and seminars as an incomparable work of gothic, dystopian, feminist and science-fiction imagination. My paper, moving from an overview of the critical reception of the novel, aims to contribute to these celebrations by paying particular attention to Mary Shelley's reconceptualization of the body, with regard to its meaning in the societal structure of the time and, more generally, in power relationships.

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