Unfashioned creatures, but half made up: Beginning with Mary Shelley's Spectre

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2007-12
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Allen, Graham
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This paper uses Derrida’s work Politics of Friendship to interrogate the concept of the “friend” in the educational and fictional writings of Mary Shelley, William Godwin and Mary Wiollstonecraft. It concludes with a reading of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which argues that a certain wager on the possibility friendship rhetorically structures Wollstonecraft’s text. The argument about friendship and education mounted in this paper leads on to my account of what elsewhere I have called otogogy.
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Derrida , Deconstruction , Educational theory , Mary Shelley , Frankenstein , William Godwin , Mary Wollstonecraft. , A Vindication of the Rights of Woman , Romantic Studies , Literary criticism , Literary theory
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Allen, Graham; (2007) 'Unfashioned creatures, but half made up: Beginning with Mary Shelley's Spectre'. Angelkai, 12 (3):127-139. doi: 10.1080/09697250802041228
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This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article whose final and definitive form, the Version of Record, has been published in the Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, copyright 2007 Taylor & Francis and the Editors of Angelaki, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09697250802041228