#frankenmark

[gothicseverance]

In most early gothic fiction, madness is neither sin nor punishment. Instead it is (...) the purest state of consciousness, thought without any definable object of thought. The victim can no longer choose and is therefore relieved of the agony of choice. (...) However nightmarish, madness functions in its purity like a sleep followed by awakening.

—A Philosophical View of the Gothic Novel

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[gothicseverance]

Woman (...) makes a life of shreds and patches into an organic whole.

—Gothic Pathologies

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[gothicseverance]

[The] piecing together of Frankenstein’s narrative, mirroring the piecing together of Frankenstein’s monster, has led critics of Gothic to appropriate the monster as the poster-child for gothic narrative.

—Disease and Discourse

Art by @m0us3rat 🖤

[gothicseverance]

The body is vulnerable, fragile, and subject to dissolution — as is the body in psychoanalytic fantasy or desire — and at the same time excessive and inchoate, proliferative, with too many significations.

—Romanticism on the Net

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[gothicseverance]

Frankenstein’s narrative structure grows increasingly complicated as each narrative slice begins to interact and mesh uneasily with the next.

—Disease and Discourse

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[gothicseverance]

Gothic deals in monsters, freaks, the language of excess.

—Queer Gothic

[gothicseverance]

Frankenstein's exploration of the forbidden boundaries of human science does not cause the prolongation and extension of his own life, but the creation of a new one. He defies mortality not by living forever, but by giving birth.

—Female Gothic