Title: Frankenstein : complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives /
Authors: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851; Smith, Johanna M.
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,; Frankenstein's Monster Fiction.; Frankenstein, Victor Fiction.; Horror tales, English History and criticism; Scientists in literature; Monsters in literature; Science fiction, English History and criticism.; Scientists Fiction; Monsters Fiction; Geneva (Switzerland) Fiction.
Abstract: "This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text of Mary Shelley's English Romantic novel along with critical essays that read Frankenstein from five contemporary critical perspectives. A sixth essay by Fred Botting demonstrates how several critical perspectives can be combined." "Each critical essay is accompanied by an introduction to the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach. The text and essays are complemented by introductions to biographical and historical contexts of Frankenstein and to its critical history and by a glossary of critical and theoretical terms."--Jacket.
Contents: Frankenstein: The Complete Text in Cultural Context -- Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts -- Contextual Documents -- from Things as They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) / William Godwin -- from Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798) / Mary Wollstonecraft -- [On Creation] (1531-1538) / Paracelsus -- from Emile, or On Education (1762) / Jean Jacques Rousseau -- A Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802) / Humphry Davy -- from The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) / Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe -- from De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari (1791) / Luigi Galvani -- A Galvanized Corpse (1836) -- Frankenstein's Laboratory (James Whale's Frankenstein, 1931) -- The Creature and His Bride-to-Be (The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935) -- The Creature Enchained (The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935) -- Frankenstein and the Racialized Creature (The Model Man, 1850) -- "The Brummagem Frankenstein" (1866) / John Tenniel --^