Author:
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851, author.
Edition Statement:Third edition.
ImprintNew York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022]
Descriptionxix, 562 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Note:The Text of Frankenstein -- Contexts -- SOURCES, INFLUENCES, ANALOGUES -- The Book of Genesis: [Biblical Account of Creation] -- From Paradise Lost (1674) / John Milton -- From The Journals of Captain Cook, The Resolutions Third Voyage (Arctic Sea, September 1778) / James Cook -- The Ancient Mariner (1800) / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Mont Blanc (1816) ; [The Sea of Ice] (1817) ; Mutability (1816) / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Prometheus (1816) ; Darkness (1816) ; From Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816) / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- The Old Familiar Faces (1798) / Charles Lamb -- CIRCUMSTANCES, COMPOSITION, REVISION -- Introduction to Frankenstein, Third Edition (1831) / Mary Shelley --From Letter Prefaced to The Vampyre (1819) / John William Polidori -- [Assembling Frankenstein] / Chris Baldick -- From Journal (1814, 181617, 1822) ; From The Frankenstein Notebooks / Mary Shelley -- Texts in Search of an Editor: Reflections on The Frankenstein Notebooks and on Editorial Authority / Charles E. Robinson -- Changes Between the 1818 and 1831 Editions of Frankenstein / Edward James -- Choosing a Text of Frankenstein to Teach / Anne K. Mellor -- RECEPTION, IMPACT, ADAPTATION -- On Frankenstein (1817) / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- From The Quarterly Review (January 1818) / [John Wilson Croker] -- From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (March 1818) / Sir Walter Scott -- Edinburgh Magazine: [On Frankenstein] (March 1818) -- The Gentlemans Magazine: [On Frankenstein] (April 1818) -- Knights Quarterly Magazine: [On Frankenstein] (AugustNovember 1824) -- Introduction to the Routledge World Library Edition (1886) / Hugh Reginald Haweis -- [The Reception of Frankenstein] / Chris Baldick -- [Frankensteins Impact] / William St. Clair -- [The Monster Lives On] / Susan Tyler Hitchcock -- Frankenstein: A Romantic Drama in Three Acts (1823) / Richard Brinsley Peake -- Approaches to Frankenstein [in Film] / David Pirie -- Looking at the Monster: Frankenstein and Film -- Modern Criticism -- Frankenstein and Radical Science / Marilyn Butler -- [Mary Shelley and the Power of Contemporary Science] / Richard Holmes -- From The Reading Monster / Patrick Brantlinger -- From Female Gothic: The Monsters Mother / Ellen Moers -- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Spectacle of Masculinity / Bette London -- From Frankenstein, Racial Science, and the Yellow Peril / Anne K. Mellor -- [Black Frankenstein] / Elizabeth Young -- [Electrical Vitality] / Mary Fairclough -- Frankenstein and the Origin and Extinction of Species / Alan Bewell -- Frankenstein and Ecocriticism / Timothy Morton -- Ghosts of 1816 / Gillen DArcy Wood -- Mary Shelley: A Chronology.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-562).
Note:"This Norton Critical Edition features the 1818 first edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. This famed gothic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a devoted science student, obsessed with creating human life by assembling the reanimating the combined remains of the recently deceased. Frankenstein is quickly repulsed by the creature he created. Living in rejection and loneliness, the creature's innocence is replaced with anger and resentment as he plots his revenge against his creator. The "Contexts" in this Norton Critical Edition include discussion of changes to Frankenstein over time, reception and impact, and a look into sources and influences. "Criticism" explores topics like order and extinction, ecocriticism, and racial science. A chronology and selected bibliography are also included."-- Provided by publisher.
