Frankenstein
Subtitle: annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds
By: edited by David H. Guston, Ed Finn, and Jason Scott Robert ; managing editors, Joey Eschrich and Mary Drago
Contributors: Guston, David H., editor; Finn, Ed, 1980- editor; Robert, Jason Scott, editor
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Cambridge, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780262533287
Subjects: Fiction; Monsters; Science in literature; Scientists
Other titles: Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus; Modern Prometheus
Description: This new critical edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was developed by leading scholars for aspiring scientists, engineers, and medical professionals. This unique framing will make this a core text in promoting and enhancing interdisciplinary dialogue on the nature, roles, and responsibilities of scientists and engineers in society. To be published in time for the 2018 bicentennial of its original publication, this edition will be produced in print and as an enhanced e-book. The e-book will contain the full text of the novel (in the public domain) plus all of the substantial scholarly material that was commissioned and developed for this new edition, including essays by leading scholars, and will be most valuable to students and teachers of ethics. Digital features will include include reader annotation, bookmarking, and multimedia content. -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261)

Corrected 1818 text of Mary Shelley's *Frankenstein*
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Charles E. Robinson; title: Frankenstein, or, the modern Prometheus. Volume I; title: Volume II; title: Volume III; title: Introduction to Frankenstein (1831); title: Chronology of science and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; title: Essays. Traumatic responsibility : Victor Frankenstein as creator and casualty / by Josephine Johnston; title: I've created a monster? (and so can you) / by Cory Doctorow; title: Changing conceptions of human nature / by Jane Maienschein and Kate MacCord; title: Undisturbed by reality : Victor Frankenstein's technoscientific dream of reason / by Alfred Nordmann; title: Frankenstein reframed; or, the trouble with Prometheus / by Elizabeth Bear; title: Frandenstein, gender, and mother nature / by Anne K. Mellor; title: The bitter aftertaste of technical sweetness / by Heather E. Douglas.