The Frankenstein Discourse Is Bad. Let’s Talk About It

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Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein film has been divisive. VERY divisive. Would it help this chaotic discourse if we knew a bit more about Mary Shelley and the original book? Probably! Come learn with me about toxic husbands, the horror of motherhood, and the queerness hidden in Frankenstein.
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Monstrous desire : Frankenstein and the queer Gothic by Mair Rigby

Homophobia and the Queered Gothic in Frankenstein by Siyu Yang

The Queer and the Uncanny in Gothic Literature by Erin Jayes

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Uncanny, abject, mutant monster: From Frankenstein to Genderpunk
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Uncanny Recognition: Queer Theory's Debt to the Gothic by Mair Rigby

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Homosexual Calm: Pausing to Listen to Queer Shame in Frankenstein by Benjamin Bagocius

‘Do you share my madness?’: Frankenstein’s queer Gothic by Mair Rigby

“Insurmountable barriers to our union”: Homosocial male bonding, homosexual panic, and death on the ice in Frankenstein by James Holt McGavran

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley edited by Harold Bloom