When Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was published in 1818, the novel immediately found itself labeled as Gothic and, with a few exceptions, promoted to the...

to its borrowings from myth, metaphysical, aesthetic and ethical aspects. Frankenstein tells the story of a man seeking to surpass his condition, akin...

the myth of the fall and redemption, creation and decreation, is, as Frankenstein again reveals, an important model for Gothic plots." Alexander Pope,...