According to Smith, what shifts in critical consideration
of Frankenstein occurred after 1970?
According to Smith, what critical shift occurred after
1990?
268:
According to Smith, what critical shift occurred after
2000?
Explain: "The novel remained a fit in both
high and low culture" (268).
What two important issues does Percy Shelley raise in his
review of Frankenstein?
Explain Percy Shelley's suggestion that the creature's
crimes are "'the children, as it were, of necessity and human
nature'" (Qtd. in Smith 268).
269:
What different types of reader does Percy Shelley
describe?
270:
Explain: "Goldberg reconciled its popular elements
with its high moral seriousness, thereby closing a gap between
low-culture and high-culture status" (270).
271:
Explain: "After 1990, some scholars based claims
for Frankenstein's high-culture status on its literary
rather than its philosophical lineage" (271).
272:
What general trends does Smith identify in Frankenstein
criticism of the 1970s, 1990s, and post-2000?
272-73:
What more specific trends does Smith identify in
psychoanalytic criticism of the novel in the 1970s, 1990s, and
post-2000?
277:
In what ways, according to Smith, has "feminist criticism
... added to earlier critical methodologies and opened a way
for new ones" (277)?
278:
According to Smith, in what area has criticism of the
novel experienced its greatest growth since 1990?
