Frankenstein
By: edited by J. Paul Hunter
Contributors: Hunter, J. Paul, 1934-
Edition: The 1818 text.
Series: A Norton critical edition
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780393964585
Copyright date: 1996
Description: [In this text], Contemporary perspective is provided in two supporting sections. "Contexts" includes related writings by Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John William Polidori. "Nineteenth-Century Responses" gathers six reactions to Frankenstein's publication from the years 1818 to 1886, including those by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Hugh Reginald Haweis. "Criticism" is a collection of twelve seminal essays that provide a variety of perspectives on "Frankenstein" by Christopher Small, George Levine ... Marilyn Butler, and Lawrence Lipking.