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Notes and Commentaries

Volume 03, Number 1 (1978)

The Dark Covert of the Mind: Wacousta

  • Ken McLean
Submitted
May 22, 2008
Published
1978-01-01

Abstract

A comparison between Major John Richardson's Wacousta (1832) and Mary Shelley's English Gothic novel Frankenstein (1818) proves fruitful: there are several similarities between Wacousta and the unnamed creature created by Dr. Frankenstein.