Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination: Frankenstein, a Moral Stain on Earth

The lure of Alpine landscapes in Shelley’s Frankenstein has attracted an increasing number of ecocritics,such as wellknown Bill Phillips and Helena Feder into this growing field of study.Both Phillips and Feder highlight the significance of the natural environment in terms of understanding literary and cultural texts.They actively argue for an interconnected relationship between Shelley’s creation and the natural environment at that time.The project of this essay chiefly focuses on the similarities in the articles of these two academics from the perspective of ecocriticism and how they relate to each other.Following this,I will discuss the differences between the two articles concerning the consideration of environmental conditions of the novel’s produc tion.Finally,the viewpoints of the two articles and its attempt to reshape perceptions and attitudes towards the present environ mental crisis will be further explored and discussed in this essay.