Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
By: [edited by] Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Bloom's guides
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780791093580
Subjects: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, -- 1797-1851; Horror tales, English -- History and criticism; Frankenstein (Fictitious character); Scientists in literature; Monsters in literature
Other titles: Frankenstein
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Percy Bysshe Shelley on Frankenstein; title: Crosbie Smith on Victor's Genovese years; title: Ludmilla Jordanova on melancholy reflection; title: Anne K. Mellor on the modern Prometheus; title: David Ketterer on the sublime setting; title: Muriel Spark on the shifting roles of Frankenstein and his monster; title: Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar on Milton's influence; title: Robert Kiely on the scientist as hero; title: Laura Claridge on familial tensions; title: Betty Bennett on the exercise of power and responsibility; title: Matthew Brennan on the psychology of landscape in Frankenstein; title: William Crisman on sibling rivalry; title: Janis McLarren Caldwell on sympathy and similitude.