On a poster warning about the dangers of genetically modified crops, a stitched-up ear of corn, “Frankenfood,” leers over an unsuspecting child. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) is so emblematically linked to a fear of modern-advancement gone awry, that its iconography has become part of our daily cultural consumption, even as we proclaim ourselves, “post-modern.” The tension in Frankenstein between scientific advancement and ethical consequences has generally been interpre