Abstract
John Bugg studies the relationship between language, alterity, and empire in two of Frankenstein’s narratives of education: the education of the Creature, and the (other) education of Victor Frankenstein. That the Creature’s realization of his alterity is consubstantial with his encounters with scenes of reading particularly evokes the “Trope of the Talking Book” passages of ex-slave writers James Gronniosaw and Olaudah Equiano. Shelley expands the Creature’s education in his own alterity into a broader education in imperial history, so that the Creature begins to find community with the displaced victims of empire. It is this education in exile, Bugg argues, that also constitutes the Creature’s revenge: he determines to have Frankenstein learn not only what it means to be “cut off from all the world,” but also, like the Creature, to read the language that names his own exile. 666 john bugg This content downloaded from 207.46.13.51 on Sun, 19 Jun 2016 06:23:33 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
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