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Journal Article
An Age of Frankenstein: Monstrous Motifs, Imaginative Capacities, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
2018
Overview
Using approaches from Science and Technology Studies (STS), political theory, and literary criticism, this paper investigates the use of monstrous motifs in British approaches to
the governance of reproductive technologies and the role of the literary imagination as an “anticipatory” governance capacity in thinking through new and emerging technologies. The
analysis is divided into three cases. The first case discusses the social and scientific context from which Frankenstein (1818) emerged. It draws from insights in
literary criticism to explore motifs related to reproduction, birth, and monstrosity within the text and Mary Shelley's own life. The second case discusses the context surrounding
the publication of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932). It serves as a transition, linking Shelley and Frankenstein to modern considerations of
reproduction and technology. The third case examines the context leading up to the birth of “test-tube baby” Louise Brown in 1978 and the how the stories, metaphors, and themes
generated by Frankenstein and Brave New World permeated the debates around the innovation of reproductive technologies in Britain.
Publisher
SF-TH Inc,University of California Press
