How Queer Is "Frankenstein"? | The New Yorker
Ruth Franklin reviews three novels that variously reimagine “Frankenstein” and the life of its author, Mary Shelley, in light of historical and contemporary conceptions of gender: Anne Eekhout’s “Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein,” C. E. McGill’s “Our Hideous Progeny,” and Louisa Hall’s “Reproduction.”