Godlike Science/Unhallowed Arts
Language and Monstrosity in Frankenstein
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4271566 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Brooks (0000-0003-4915-4986, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 591 |
| Publication date | 1978-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/468457 |
| OpenAlex | W2044907879 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
and ultimate narrator). Following the first murders committed by his Monster-William strangled, Justine judicially done to death through maliciously falsified evidence-Frankenstein journeys to seek solace in the mountains above Chamonix. He penetrates into the glorious presence-chamber of imperial Nature, climbs to Montanvert and the Mer de Glace, hoping to recapture remembered effect of a sublime ecstasy that gave wings to the soul, and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy.' His ascension takes him to wonderful and stupendous scene, overlooking the Mer de Glace, facing the awful majesty of Mont Blanc; his heart once again opens to joy, and he exclaims, in the tones of the Ossianic bard, Wandering spirits, if indeed ye wander, and do not rest in your narrow beds, allow me this faint happiness, or take me, as your companion, away from the joys of life (p. 98). Whereupon superhuman shape comes bounding over the ice. It is, of course, no spirit of the departed, and no beneficent spirit of nature, but the Monster himself, who has at last tracked down his creator and will force him into parley. It is worth noting here that every time nature is invoked in the novel, as moral presence presiding over human life, it appears to produce only the monstrous. Thus, earlier, as Frankenstein returns to Geneva after learning of William's death, tremendous thun
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2018 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |