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題名 Shelley`s Frankenstein as a Book of Love and Despair 作者 趙順良
Chao, Shun-liang貢獻者 英文系 日期 2019-09 上傳時間 27-Mar-2020 15:33:12 (UTC+8) 摘要 Influenced by Enlightenment philosophes like Rousseau and Smith, Romantic writers, such as Coleridge and Percy Shelley, celebrate the sublime power of sympathetic love to merge the self and the other (be it human or inhuman) into a wondrous whole, thereby precluding the dangers of solitude and solipsism. Not all Romantic writers, however, share the same sanguine view of love. In Frankenstein, for instance, Mary Shelley offers an alternative to the optimistic perspective on the capacity of (mutual) sympathy. She shapes the novel into tales of bitter solitude, one caused by the lack of sympathetic understanding between Victor and nature, between the Monster and the De Laceys, and between the Monster and his father Victor. In these mutual relations, I argue, Shelley evokes elements of Enlightenment/Romantic love, only to revoke its sublime power and furthermore turn it into despair. Rather than the Romantic joy of transcendent plenitude, the novel is shrouded in Gothic despair, the outright negation of redemption. 關聯 CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 21:5 資料類型 article dc.contributor 英文系 dc.creator (作者) 趙順良 dc.creator (作者) Chao, Shun-liang dc.date (日期) 2019-09 dc.date.accessioned 27-Mar-2020 15:33:12 (UTC+8) - dc.date.available 27-Mar-2020 15:33:12 (UTC+8) - dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 27-Mar-2020 15:33:12 (UTC+8) - dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/129173 - dc.description.abstract (摘要) Influenced by Enlightenment philosophes like Rousseau and Smith, Romantic writers, such as Coleridge and Percy Shelley, celebrate the sublime power of sympathetic love to merge the self and the other (be it human or inhuman) into a wondrous whole, thereby precluding the dangers of solitude and solipsism. Not all Romantic writers, however, share the same sanguine view of love. In Frankenstein, for instance, Mary Shelley offers an alternative to the optimistic perspective on the capacity of (mutual) sympathy. She shapes the novel into tales of bitter solitude, one caused by the lack of sympathetic understanding between Victor and nature, between the Monster and the De Laceys, and between the Monster and his father Victor. In these mutual relations, I argue, Shelley evokes elements of Enlightenment/Romantic love, only to revoke its sublime power and furthermore turn it into despair. Rather than the Romantic joy of transcendent plenitude, the novel is shrouded in Gothic despair, the outright negation of redemption. dc.format.extent 319175 bytes - dc.format.mimetype application/pdf - dc.relation (關聯) CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 21:5 dc.title (題名) Shelley`s Frankenstein as a Book of Love and Despair dc.type (資料類型) article dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.7771/1481-4374.3261 dc.identifier.doi (DOI) https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3261
