Exegesis: my hideous progeny: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go as an evolution of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein analysed through the lifecycle of the scientifically created human monster. Creative project: The Isis Club (a novel)

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This exegesis considers Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go as a contemporary Gothic text which utilises the scientifically created human monster. Through investigating the device of the literary scientifically created human monster, originating with the creature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, I have noted a lifecycle which is unique to these literary monsters. This exegesis explores the monster's lifecycle looking at the replicants in Ridley Scott's movie Blade Runner, the clones in Never Let Me Go, and Frankenstein's creature. In discussions of Gothic literature and the contemporary Gothic, this exegesis considers what happens when science takes over from the maternal. In doing so, I consider the reasons why Never Let Me Go is a reworking and evolution of the Gothic horror novel and Ishiguro's monster-clones are scientifically created human monsters.<br><br>In the reading of the three core fictional works, I consider how such monsters might be read in the debates about the limits

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