MSU Honors student, Erin Quinn explores the role of travel in Frankenstein in newly published paper

MSU Honors student, Erin Quinn explores the role of travel in Frankenstein in newly published paper

Erin Quinn
Erin Quinn

Mississippi State University (MSU) and Shackouls Honors College’s Erin Quinn has had her paper published in Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism.

The paper is titled "Beyond "His Native Town": Travel and Alienation in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein."

In this work, she explains the role of travel in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by arguing that the various urban and wilderness spaces through which protagonist Victor Frankenstein journeys work together to reveal his alienation from both humanity and nature, an alienation that ultimately results from his transgressive formation of the Creature.

She was supervised by Dr. Lara Dodds, Professor, Department of English, Mississippi State University.

Check out the publication here:

Beyond "His Native Town": Travel and Alienation in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Beyond "His Native Town": Travel and Alienation in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein