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Title: Paradigmatic Gothic
Review: Frankenstein is one of the key templates of modern fiction, setting into motion narratives regarding anxiety about science and creation, power over nature, and more saliently anxiety over reproduction, particularly male anxiety. The novel revolves around an implicit and typical family romance that can be found in many gothic novels - the temptation or possibility of incestuous relationship and its sublimation and avoidance. There is also a fairly radical revolutionary subtext in the novel inspired in part by Mary Shelley's father William Godwin (his own fictional works are mirror images of Frankenstein in many ways).
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