Ambiguous heritage of Frankenstein / Horror's Twin: Mary Shelley's monstrous eve / Feminist critique of science / Mary Shelley's daemon / "Did you get Mathilda from papa?": seduction fantasy and the circulation of Mary Shelley's Mathilda / Finding Mary Shelley in her letters / Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the woman writer's fate / Mary Shelley on the therapeutic value of language / Exile, isolation, and accommodation in The Last Man: the strategies of a survivor / Monsters of empire: Conrad and Lawrence / Sweetheart of darkness: Kurtz's intended as progeny of Frankenstein's bride / Frankenstein and its cinematic translations / Mary Shelley: romance and reality