Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein

Anne K. Mellor at L.A. County High School for the Arts.

"[Anne Mellor’s work in the late twentieth century was instrumental in expanding what had been a very restricted, almost exclusively male Romantic canon to include long-neglected women writers. Romanticism and Feminism, a book which she edited, was the first collection of feminist essays on Romantic literature; the following essay was her own contribution to that book.]"