Perfecting monstrosity: Frankenstein and the enlightenment debate on perfectibility

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Alexander Cook is a cultural and intellectual historian based at the Australian National University. His research focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and his major publications include Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment (Pickering and Chatto, 2013). He is currently completing a monograph on the French Revolutionary politician and scholar Constantin-François Volney, together with a collaborative book on scientific voyaging during the French Revolution. He is a former editor of History Australia, the journal of the Australian HIstorical Association.

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