Gothic Sublime, Negative Transcendence, and the Politics of Abjection: Woman Writer and Her Monster in Frankenstein

Abstract

Analyzes the aesthetic idea of the sublime in the Romantic tradition; questions of the sublime in its philosophical, political and social context; emphasis on the Gothic side implicit in the idea of the sublime as alterity against the Enlightenment ideology of logocentrism. Frankenstein as a quintessential embodiment of the Gothic transgression against the dominant discourse of patriarchy and reason.