Frankenstein : complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives /

Frankenstein : complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives /

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"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 c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
Other Authors: Smith, Johanna M. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2000]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Case studies in contemporary criticism.
Subjects:
Frankenstein, Victor > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Frankenstein's Monster > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, > 1797-1851. > Frankenstein.
Frankenstein, Victor > (Fictitious character)
Frankenstein's Monster > (Fictitious character)
Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft)
Scientists > Fiction.
Monsters > Fiction.
Science fiction, English > History and criticism.
Horror tales, English > History and criticism.
Scientists in literature.
Monsters in literature.
Horror tales, English.
Monsters.
Science fiction, English.
Scientists.
Geneva (Switzerland) > Fiction.
Switzerland > Geneva.
Science fiction.
Novels.
Horror fiction.
Gothic fiction.
Frame stories.
Fiction.
Epistolary fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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
  • "The Irish Frankenstein" (1882) / John Tenniel
  • Charles Ogle as the Creature (Edison's Frankenstein, 1910)
  • Boris Karloff as the Creature (James Whale's Frankenstein, 1931)
  • Christopher Lee as the Creature (The Curse of Frankenstein, 1957)
  • Keith Jochim as the Creature (Victor Gialanella's Frankenstein, 1981)
  • The Creature Attacking His Maker (Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, 1994)
  • Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
  • A Critical History of Frankenstein
  • Psychoanalytic Criticism and Frankenstein
  • What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism?
  • Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
  • A Psychoanalytic Perspective
  • The Monster and the Maternal Thing: Mary Shelley's Critique of Ideology / David Collings
  • Feminist Criticism and Frankenstein
  • What Is Feminist Criticism?
  • Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
  • A Feminist Perspective
  • "Cooped Up" with "Sad Trash": Domesticity and the Sciences in Frankenstein / Johanna M. Smith
  • Gender Criticism and Frankenstein
  • What Is Gender Criticism?
  • Gender Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
  • A Gender Perspective
  • Lesbian Panic and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Frann Michel
  • Marxist Criticism and Frankenstein
  • What Is Marxist Criticism?
  • Marxist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
  • A Marxist Perspective
  • The "Workshop of Filthy Creation": A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein / Warren Montag
  • Cultural Criticism and Frankenstein
  • What Is Cultural Criticism?
  • Cultural Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
  • A Cultural Perspective
  • Frankenstein of the Nineties: The Composite Body / Bouriana Zakharieva
  • Combining Perspectives on Frankenstein
  • Reflections of Excess: Frankenstein, the French Revolution, and Monstrosity / Fred Botting.