Analyzes the aesthetic idea of the sublime in the Romantic tradition; questions of the sublime in its philosophical, political and social context; emphasis on the Gothic side implicit in the idea of the sublime as alterity against the Enlightenment ideology of logocentrism. Frankenstein as a quintessential embodiment of the Gothic transgression against the dominant discourse of patriarchy and reason.
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臺灣英美文學期刊, 1(1), 1-16 Taiwan journal of English literature