Tag: criticism

Why Study Literature?

Reading expands our social imaginations and literary criticism can tell us why.

Deconstructing Frankenstein

Celebrated literary critic, Barbara Johnson dissects Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to discover Shelley's "proto-feminist" message.   Now a shoe-in for any self-respecting English curriculum from high school through graduate studies, the 1818 novel, Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, has been ascribed as the archetypal text of the