Scholarship and criticism on Mary Shelley

Notice

This is not necessarily a "complete" bibliography of scholarship on this author. Rather, it is a selective bibliography of feminist SF scholarship, or scholarship of particular interest to feminist SF scholars.

Levine, George, and U. C. Knoepflmacher, editors.

• The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

Lowe-Evans, Mary, editor.

• Critical Essays on Mary Shelley (G. K. Hall, New York; Prentice Hall, London; 1998)

Beth Newman.

• "Narratives of Seduction and the Seductions of Narrative: The Frame Structure of Frankenstein." ELH, v. 53, no. 1 (Spring 1986): pp. 141-163.

Robin Ann Roberts.

• A New Species: The Female Tradition in Science Fiction from Mary Shelley to Doris Lessing. Dissertation, 1985.
• "The Paradigm of Frankenstein: Reading Canopus in Argos in the Context of Science Fiction by Women," Extrapolation, v. 25, no. 1 (Spring 1985): pp. 16-23.

Joanna Russ.

• Introduction to Mary Shelley's Tales and Stories (Boston: Gregg Press, 1975).

Shaw, Debra Benita.

• Women, Science, and Fiction: The Frankenstein Inheritance (Wiltshire, UK: Palgrave, 2000); 248 pp. hbk; ISBN 0333741587. Reviews sf written by women from 1914-1968. Includes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland; Burdekin's Swastika Night; Margaret St. Clair; Donna Haraway; Amazons, matriarchal societies & feminist separatism; cyborgs ....

Veeder, William.

• Mary Shelley and Frankenstein: The Fate of Androgyny. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Walling, William A.

• Mary Shelley. New York: Twayne, 1972.

Waxman, Barbara Frey.

• "Victor Frankenstein's Romantic Fate: The Tragedy of the Promethean Overreacher as Woman," Papers on Language and Literature, v. 23, no. 1 (Winter 1987): pp. 14-26.

Mellor, Anne K.

• "Frankenstein: A Feminist Critique of Science," One Culture: Essays in Sciece and Literature, edited by George Levine, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987: pp. 287-312.
• Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. New York: Methuen, 1988.

Rubenstein, Marc A.

• "'My Accursed Origin': The Search for the Mother in Frankenstein." Studies in Romanticism Volume 15, Number 2 (Spring?/Sept.? 1976): pages 165-194.

Tillotson, Marcia.

• "'A Forced Solitude': Mary Shelley and the Creation of Frankenstein's Monster," in The Female Gothic, edited by Juliann E. Fleenor, Montreal: Eden Press, 1983: pp. 167-175; 298-300.

Iain Crawford.

• "Wading Through Slaughter: John Hampden, Thomas Gray, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." Studies in the Novel v. 20 (Fall 1988): pp. 249-261.

John A. Dussinger

• "Kinship and Guilt in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." Studies in the Novel, v. 8, no. 1 (Spring 1976): pp. 38-55.

Gilbert, Sandra M.

• "Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve." Feminist Studies, v. 4, no. 2 (June 1978): pp. 48-73.

Hatlen, Burton.

• "Milton, Mary Shelley, and Patriarchy." Rhetoric, Literature, and Interpretation, edited by Harry R. Garvin. Bucknell Review, v. 28, no. 2 (1983): pp. 19-47.

Homans, Margaret.

• "Bearing Demons: Frankenstein's Circumvention of the Maternal." Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, edited by Harold Bloom. Modern Critical Interpretations Series. New York: Chelsea House, 1987: pp. 133-153.