Frankenstein

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Author: Mary Shelley

ISBN-10: 1597371297

ISBN-13: 9781597371292

Category: English, Irish, Scottish Fiction & Literature Classics

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The original, 1818 text of the Classic novel.James Hynes. . .[T]he novel Frankenstein is quite a read. . . .It's highly Romantic, in the literary sense. . .[there is] a good deal of attractive torment and self-doubt, from both Victor Frankenstein and his creation. . . .If ever a book needed to be placed in context, it's Frankenstein. —The New York Times Book Review

About the SeriesAbout This VolumePt. 1Frankenstein: The Complete Text in Cultural ContextIntroduction: Biographical and Historical Context3The Complete Text19Contextual Documents190from Things as They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794)193from Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798)197[On Creation] (1531-1538)201from Emile, or On Education (1762)205A Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802)211from The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)222from De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari (1791)224A Galvanized Corpse (1836)224Frankenstein's Laboratory (James Whale's Frankenstein, 1931)225The Creature and His Bride-to-Be (The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935)225The Creature Enchained (The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935)226Frankenstein and the Racialized Creature (The Model Man, 1850)226"The Brummagem Frankenstein" (1866)227"The Irish Frankenstein" (1882)228Charles Ogle as the Creature (Edison's Frankenstein, 1910)229Boris Karloff as the Creature (James Whale's Frankenstein, 1931)230Christopher Lee as the Creature (The Curse of Frankenstein, 1957)231Keith Jochim as the Creature (Victor Gialanella's Frankenstein, 1981)232The Creature Attacking His Maker (Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, 1994)233Pt. 2Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary CriticismA Critical History of Frankenstein237Psychoanalytic Criticism and Frankenstein262The Monster and the Maternal Thing: Mary Shelley's Critique of Ideology280Feminist Criticism and Frankenstein296"Cooped Up" with "Sad Trash": Domesticity and the Sciences in Frankenstein313Gender Criticism and Frankenstein334Lesbian Panic and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein349Marxist Criticism and Frankenstein368The "Workshop of Filthy Creation": A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein384Cultural Criticism and Frankenstein396Frankenstein of the Nineties: The Composite Body416Combining Perspectives on Frankenstein432Reflections of Excess: Frankenstein, the French Revolution, and Monstrosity435Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms450About the Contributors469