men on whom I can depend
The public realm of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is so insistently
masculine that the reader must construe this as a deliberate aspect of
the novel's construction. The wholly male crew of the ship will, later
in the first volume, be replicated in the exclusively male ambience of the
University of Ingolstadt and the more narrow and even sinister magistracy
of Geneva. By the second volume the novel's main characters have
committed themselves and the novel to a homosocial bonding of enormous force.
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