Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein

The dissertation engages in a postcolonial reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It argues that Frankenstein and the education of Frankenstein's creature are both deeply rooted in colonial discourse, the nature of the colonial other and the place of this other within Western society. By...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Melvill, Oliver
Other Authors: Young, Sandra
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14077