Dis-abled Bodies: Disability and Vulnerability in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Dis-abled Bodies: Disability and Vulnerability in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Author(s): Heather Negrón
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Frankenstein; monster; disability; able-bodied; horror
Summary/Abstract: The use in this article of disability theory to analyse Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein raises questions connected with the social structuring of disability in general. It analyses the production of horror in the novel through exposing the contrast between the dis-abled monster and able-bodied characters.

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