Victor Frankenstein’s Evil Genius: Plutarch, Brutus’s Vision, and the Absent Revolution

Авторы

  • Fabio Camilletti University of Warwick (UK)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2037-2426/14492

Ключевые слова:

Plutarch, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Ghosts, French Revolution

Аннотация

This essay examines the influence of Plutarch’s Life of Brutus on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, arguing that the relationship between Brutus and his «evil genius» provides Shelley with a model for characterizing the pair of Victor Frankenstein and his Creature. By considering the broader context of Plutarch’s reception from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries, and particularly the construction of Brutus as a ghost-seer, a clinical obsessive, or a revolutionary icon, the essay examines the Brutus/Victor parallel as actual and/or symbolic parricides, shedding new light on Shelley’s failed representation of the French Revolution in her novel.

Биография автора

  • Fabio Camilletti, University of Warwick (UK)

    Professore associato di Letteratura Italiana
    University of Warwick (UK)

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Опубликован

2021-07-09

Выпуск

№ 27 (2021)

Раздел

Эссе

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Как цитировать

Victor Frankenstein’s Evil Genius: Plutarch, Brutus’s Vision, and the Absent Revolution. (2021). ENTHYMEMA<br>International journal of literary criticism, literary theory,<br>and philosophy of literature, 27, 18-30. https://doi.org/10.13130/2037-2426/14492