Introduction: Biology and the Idea of Culture

• Main Authors: Feder, Helena, NC DOCKS at East Carolina University
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Critical Theory;Animal Studies;Critical Animal Studies;Ecocriticism;Material Ecocriticism; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Mont Blanc; Percy; Mellor; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/ecu/f/0000-embargo-holder.txt

This chapter analyses Frankenstein's dramatization of the costs and consequences of the drive for transcendence in terms of humanist culture's anxieties about human and nonhuman identities in capitalist production. The chapter considers the novel's considerable critical landscape and...