Well, Frankenstein does belong to the Gothic genre, but I think its generic status is not very simple. It is extremely self-reflexive in its use of the Horror-genre and it can also be read as an appropriation of the Gothic genre to raise some still other issues and themes such as the theological paradox of creation, the relation between god and man, the debates about the Divine figuration of the writer in the Romantic aesthetics and such complex issues like sin, guilt and damnation.
In recent times, the novel has been read as one of the first instances of science-fiction as well though one would have to say that it also critiques the rationalist process of scientific creation, which does not take into its account, the zones of emotion or the affective space in general. Above all, it is a romance, quite tragic in character, and one may as well read into it a modern tale of human alienation, that is the destiny of the 'monster'.
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