“anxieties attendant on parenting and responsibility seem to be foreground” (Ruston and Smith 237)

“the modes and mechanisms by which a better humanity might be nurtured and on the obstacles of the project” (Ruston and Smith 239)

“chemists in the early nineteenth century had a particular worldview that meant they saw all forms of matter as temporary states, liable to transform according to physical or chemical processes into new forms” (Ruston and Smith 239)

“He believes that just as once-living matter dies, what is dead can live again, as matter transforms into new forms” (Ruston and Smith 239)

“is it a biological-scientific fable of the dangers of meddling with the phenomena of life, or a technological-political fable of the revenge of the marginalized and neglected?” (Ruston and Smith 240)

“Frankenstein foreshadows in an uncanny way the increasingly intimate relations between biological automatism and mechanical automation in technological modernity” (Ruston and Smith 241)

“Critical discussions of the work characterize Victor’s plan (and the novel itself) as a fantasy of reproduction that bypasses women, implicitly rendering the Creature’s status as ‘baby'” (Holmes 373)

“reading the novel ‘with’ disability arguably brings it closer to more people’s lived experiences in comparison to interpretations focused on cloning or genetic modifications” (Holmes 375)

“question of whether living beings are fundamentally distinct from non-living beings due to the presence of an immaterial “life force”. or whether the phenomena of life could be fully explained by physics and chemistry” (Smith 303)

“speculation concerning electricity as a “life force” serving to animate inert matter” (Smith 303)

“As a figure laden with negative affect, the monster offers transgender readers a way of addressing feelings of shame, gender dysphoria, and alienation from heteronormative gender and sexuality” (Koch Rain 44)

“reading shame and disgust surrounding the monster’s body in Frankenstein through a transgender lens has important implications for how we theorize the affective intensity of gender dysphoria and the violence of transphobia” (Koch Rain 45)

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