 However , in the last decade or so this view has been challenged . For example , Bennett claims that Mary Shelley 's works reveal a consistent commitment to Romantic idealism and political reform and Jane Blumberg 's study of Shelley 's early novels argues that her career cannot be easily divided into radical and conservative halves . She contends that " Shelley was never a passionate radical like her husband and her later lifestyle was not abruptly assumed nor was it a betrayal . She was in fact challenging the political and literary influences of her circle in her first work . " In this reading , Shelley 's early works are interpreted as a challenge to Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley 's radicalism . Victor Frankenstein 's " thoughtless rejection of family " , for example , is seen as evidence of Shelley 's constant concern for the domestic . 
