Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Self–expression of the Pregnant Mother's Fears

Abstract

Frankenstein (1816) is an impressive novel known as a story of

terror, and many critics and movies present it to mean so. But, Mary

Shelley (1797 – 1851), in her preface in the revised edition of 1831,

describes the novel as: "one which speaks to the mysterious fears of our

nature". 1 [emphasis added]. That is,