@inbook{10.3138/9781442689183.9,
 ISBN = {9780802098030},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442689183.9},
 abstract = {Almost two centuries after the nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley wroteFrankenstein, her monster is so firmly entrenched in the popular imagination that the novel’s title is frequently mistaken for the name of the monster himself. The desire to associate the monster with a proper name is natural enough, for by naming him we implicitly accept him as our moral equal. But ‘our’ moral reciprocity with the monster is undermined by the ethical reality depicted by the novel. No one else sees fit to name the monster. Is this why Shelley leaves her monster unnamed? Is his anonymity a condition of his},
 author = {RICHARD VAN OORT},
 booktitle = {Spheres of Action: Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture},
 pages = {124--146},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {A Race of Devils: Frankenstein, Romanticism, and the Tragedy of Human Origin},
 year = {2009}
}