Croke's piece incorporates the Gothic, and in particular themes of the grotesque and the monstrous body through her use of human decay. ... According to Spooner, Frankenstein acts as an archetypal human monster. ... In the context of the Gothic, we are, "not just repetitions of previous forms, but reinventions," (Spooner, 2006), Geek Love follows also a quite Frankensteinian theme. ... Their work has been described to be within a 'gothic idiom' and was concerned with the haunting themes found within these tales. Crokes' work shares a thread with Sherman and the ...

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The ruined abbeys and the decrepit castles are symbols for the collapse of religion and aristocracy, being destroyed by scientific advances, a common theme in the time the book was written. ... He sleeps in a coffin, which is symbolic of the Death culture that Victorian society was obsessed with, which is also shown by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. ...

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