Political Philosophy in "Frankenstein"
by
Eileen Hunt Botting
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
From her youth, Mary Shelley immersed herself in the social contract tradition, particularly the educational and political theories of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as the radical philosophies of her parents, the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the anarchist William Godwin. Against...