Date of Award
Fall 1-3-2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Kelvin Black
Second Advisor
Alan Vardy
Academic Program Adviser
Janet Neary
Abstract
Though Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein produces an ideology of sympathy consistent with the literary and philosophical aims of Romanticism, this essay examines Shelley’s critique of patriarchy which posits that though sympathetic companionship in Frankenstein remains an ethical necessity, it is unattainable within a social order marred by misogynist structures of power.
Recommended Citation
Velez, Estefania, "“The Healing Balm of Sympathy Denied”: Moral Sense Philosophy, Patriarchy, and Monstrosity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein" (2019). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/556
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