the Frankenstein inheritance
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Shaw, Debra Benita
- Publish Year
- 2000
- Shelfmark
- B676 - B
- Thesaurus
- bètawetenschappen, utopisme, cyborgs, science fiction, schrijvers, Amerikaans, Engels, feminisme, epistemologie, fascisme
- Description
- Shaw argues that Shelly not only gave birth to a literary genre by writing Frankenstei, but als established a paradigm for understanding the enduring fascination of science fiction for twentieth-century women writers, who, generally excluded from the debates that structure the role of new tecyhnologies and scientific theories in sociale life, have found a voice through engaging with the potential of this male-dominated genre. She focuses on the works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katharine Burdekin, C.L. Moore and Margaret St Clair.