Harvester of Hearts: Motherhood under the Sign of Frankensteinweaves experimental interpretations of Mary Shelley’s early fictions with meditations on topics ranging from twentieth-century feminist theory to elective affinities to the intellectual history of the placenta. The book upsets received distinctions between biological and intellectual history, on the one hand, and literary criticism and creative writing, on the other.
Along the way, I make sense of my first year as a parent.
Harvester unfolds in twenty-six micro-chapters. An early version of the first chapter appeared in Avidly.
The book is available from Northwestern University Press.
Press:
I discussed Mary Shelley’s Mathilda and Harvester on Bonnets at Dawn.
Deanna Koretsky reviewed Harvester in The Wordsworth Circle (50.4).
Francesca Saggini reviewed Harvester in European Romantic Review (30.4).
Michael Caines wrote about Harvester in TLS, and discussed it on the TLS Podcast.
Brian Matzke interviewed me about Harvester for the Frankenstein’s Afterlife podcast.
”Revisiting A Forgotten Frankenstein” (14East)
Weekly Book List (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Frankenstein and Motherhood (DU Newsroom)
Shelf Discovery (University of Denver Magazine)
