Table of Contents

Introduction
A summary of the plot What is the novel about?
What kind of novel is Frankenstein?
Who is telling the story?
Is Victor Frankenstein a hero?
Is Victor Frankenstein a monster?
In what ways is Frankenstein's "miserable monster" monstrous?
In what ways is the monster Frankenstein's double?
In what ways is Frankenstein's monster virtuous?
Is the monster the novel's hero?
Is Frankenstein a feminist novel?
What makes Frankenstein such an extraordinary achievement?

About the Author

Dr Josie Billington is a Victorian Literature specialist in the School of English at University of Liverpool and has published widely on nineteenth-century fiction and poetry, including Faithful Realism(2002), Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters (2006), Eliot's Middlemarch (2008), Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare (2012). In her role as Deputy Director of the Centre for Reading Research at University of Liverpool she is studying the value of serious literature as a power for good in modern life - a pursuit which, she dares to think, George Eliot might have endorsed.