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    Lectures on Shelley's Frankenstein. Part 1.

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    FRANKENSTEIN.1

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    LITERATURA II

    Feminist Criticism
    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
    Feminist Criticism (I)
    Feminist Literary Criticism advocates equal rights for all women (and
    all peoples) in all areas of life: socially, politically, professionally,
    personally, economically, aesthetically, and psychologically.
    • Product of the women’s movement of the 1960s

    • Literary from the start: reconsider images


    of women in literature
    ‘What unites feminist literary criticism is an acute and impassioned attentiveness to the ways in which
    primarily male structures of power are inscribed within our literary inheritance and the consequences of
    that encoding for women – as characters, as readers, and as writers.’ (Annette Kolodny)
    PHALLOCENTRISM
    PHALLOGOCENTRISM

    Privileging of the masculine


    (the phallus) in understanding
    meaning or social relations. 
    Do not let a woman with a sexy rump deceive you with
    wheedling and coaxing words; she is after your barn. The man
    who trusts a woman trusts a deceiver.
    (Hesiod, poet, 8th century BCE)

    Plato thanks the gods for two blessings: that he had not been
    born a slave and that he had not been born a woman.
    (Plato, 5th century BCE)

    Nature intended women to be our slaves… They are our


    property… What a mad idea to demand equality for women!
    (Napoleon, 1769-1821)
    Women writers are a “damned mob of scribbling women” who
    only write anything worth reading if the devil is in them.
    (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864)

    Woman is natural, that is, abominable.


    (Baudelaire, 1821-1867)

    Educating a woman is a like pouring honey over a fine Swiss


    watch. It stops working.
    (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., 1922-2007)
    Phases in female writing

    •FEMININE (1840-1880)
    •FEMINIST (1880-1920)
    •FEMALE (1920-today)
    Frankenstein

    NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
    t e r
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    M o
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    W o r
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    Vic

    Introduction + Preface
    Frankenstein

    THE EPISTOLARY TRADITION


    EPISTOLARY NOVEL
    •The first English novel
    •Written entirely in letter form
    •Samuel Richardson’s Pamela
    (1740)
    EPISTOLARY TRADITION
    •Continued to develop through the
    centuries 1982

    2003 1996
    1897 1999 1974

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