Monstrous dissection and surgery as performance: Gender, race and the Bride of Frankenstein

Mulvey-Roberts, Marie

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-78142-6_4

All Outputs (2)

Female radicals in Bristol: The three Marys and Mary Wollstonecraft's "The Cave of Fancy" (2018)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2018). Female radicals in Bristol: The three Marys and Mary Wollstonecraft's "The Cave of Fancy". In L. Duckling, S. Read, F. Roberts, & C. D. Williams (Eds.), Exploring the Lives of Women 1558-1837 (57-66). Pen & Sword Books

Monstrous dissection and surgery as performance: Gender, race and the Bride of Frankenstein (2018)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2018). Monstrous dissection and surgery as performance: Gender, race and the Bride of Frankenstein. In C. M. Davison, & M. Mulvey-Roberts (Eds.), Global Frankenstein (53-71). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78142-6_4

For creating his creature out of dead bodies, Victor Frankenstein makes use of dissection, described by William Lawrence as a ‘dirty source of knowledge’. Victor’s historical antecedents will be related to Mary Shelley’s circle and look ahead to Gunt... Read More about Monstrous dissection and surgery as performance: Gender, race and the Bride of Frankenstein.