Frame Narratives and The Gothic Subject

So endemic to the early Gothic, yet so often critically neglected, the trope of the found manuscript, and by extension the frame narrative, is nonetheless revealing of a particular anxiety within the genre as a whole, and one which contemporary Gothic texts increasingly problematize as a force of narrative antagonism. This paper explores the relationship between the framer and framed in both Mary Shelley's classic Gothic text Frankenstein and Richard Flanagan's Tazmanian Gothic text Gould's Book of Fish.