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The man who loved Frankenstein.(ESSAY)
From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
Date: 20071101
Author:Sadownick, Douglas
The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein
by John Lauritsen
Pagan Press. 232 pages, $16.95
BACK IN THE EARLY 1980's, when I was an English literature grad student, Frankenstein was something of a controversial work. Many thumbed their nose at Mary Shelley's popular gothic novel as inferior to the genius of her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Others argued that Frankenstein was a feminist take on the male envy of female procreation. Despite how trapped I was by the various ideologies of the academy, I was also claiming my gay identity for the first time, and I began to ...
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