Mary Shelley and the rights of the child : political philosophy in Frankenstein / by Botting, Eileen Hunt, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Preface : welcome to the Creature double feature -- Introduction : Frankenstein and the question of children's rights -- The specter of the stateless orphan from Hobbes to Shelley -- Wollstonecraft's philosophy of children's rights -- Shelley's thought experiments on the rights of the child -- Three applications of Shelley's thought experiments : the rights of the disabled, stateless, and posthuman children.…”

"A different earth" : Literary space in Mary Shelley's novels / by Rohleder, Rebekka

Table of Contents: “…3.1 "A world already possessed": Naturalising Poverty3.1.1 Spaces of Perfectibility; 3.1.2 Anti-Utopian Islands; 3.2 "The production of men": From Thought Experiment to Fiction; 3.2.1 "The Last Man": Imagining a Depopulated Earth; 3.2.2 The 1831 "Frankenstein" and the Children of the Poor; 3.3 "Remember Utopia!" …”
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