· Cultural critics want to make term culture refer to popular culture as well as the classics

· Break down the boundary between high and low and dismantle the hierarchy that the distinction implies

· Cultural critics want to get us away from thinking about certain works as the 'best' ones produced by a given culture (and therefore as the novels that best represent American culture). They seek to be more descriptive and less evaluative, more interested in relating than rating cultural products and events.

· Culture is really a set of interactive cultures, alive and growing and changing, and cultural critics should be present a

Michel Foucault - strong, continental influence on present day cultural criticism and perhaps the strongest influence on American cultural criticism and new historicism (an interdisciplinary form of historical criticism).

· Critics in Europe drew upon the ideas of both Marxist and non-Marxist theorists.

o Poovey closely connects the proprieties taught by eighteenth century women who write conduct manuals, ladies' magazines, and even novels with patriarchal notions of women and men's property.

· Classified Frankenstein as Gothic Fiction, which existed in both high brow and popular forms of literature.

· Frankenstein appealed to a broad audience. It broke the barriers of forms of art because it appealed to all tastes.

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