Frankenstein, A Longman Cultural Edition

by Shelley, Mary; Wolfson, Susan J.

• ISBN13: 9780321096982
• ISBN10: 0321096983
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

This edition of Frankenstein , or The Modern Prometheus , presents Mary Shelley's remarkable novel in several provocative and illuminating contexts: cultural, critical, and literary. As part of Longman's new Cultural Edition series of novels, Susan Wolfson presents the 1818 version of Mary Shelley's famous novel in its cultural and historical contexts. Like all great works of fiction, Frankenstein gains depth and dimension from its "conversation" with contemporary texts, especially by Shelley's parents, husband, and friends. In addition to the 1818 text, this cultural edition features the introduction to and a sample revision of the 1831 version. A lively introduction to the edition is complemented by a chronology coordinating Shelley's life with key historical events and a speculative calendar of the novel's events in the late eighteenth century.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
About Longman Cultural Editions	xiii
About This Edition	xv
Introduction	xix
Table of Dates	xxv
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)	3	(183)
Volume 1	7	(62)
Volume 2	69	(52)
Volume 3	121	(65)
from Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1831)	186	(11)
Introduction	186	(6)
from Volume 1, Chapter 1 [The adoption of Elizabeth]	192	(5)
Contexts	197	(140)
Monsters, Visionaries, and Mary Shelley	199	(72)
Aesthetic Adventures	199	(1)
on ``the Sublime and the Beautiful,'' from A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the beautiful	200	(3)
Edmund Burke
from A Vindication of the Rights of Men	203	(1)
Mary Wollstonecraft
from On Picturesque Travel	204	(2)
William Gilpin
from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere	206	(7)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jemima's Story from Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman	213	(18)
Mary Wollstonecraft
journal entries (1815)	231	(2)
Mary Godwin (Shelley)
from Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude	233	(10)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
with Percy Bysshe Shelley, from History of a Six Weeks' Tour	243	(2)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mont Blanc	245	(6)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third	251	(2)
George Gordon
Lord Byron
A Fragment	253	(5)
George Gordon
Lord Byron
from Frankenstein, A Romantic Drama in Three Acts	258	(8)
Richard Brinsley Peake
from a letter to Edward J. Trelawny	266	(2)
Mary Shelley
``Enjoy Your Baby,'' from Baby and Child Care	268	(3)
Benjamin Spock
Milton's Satan and Romantic Imaginations	271	(29)
Genesis, Chapters 2 and 3	273	(2)
The King James Bible
from Paradise Lost	275	(10)
John Milton
from An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice	285	(1)
William Godwin
Prometheus	286	(2)
George Gordon
Lord Byron
``To one who has been long in city pent''	288	(1)
John Keats
from marginalia to Paradise Lost	289	(3)
John Keats
Remarks on Paradise Lost, from Lectures on the English Poets	292	(2)
William Hazlitt
from Prometheus Unbound	294	(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
from A Defence of Poetry	296	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
``What is it that we mean by literature?''	297	(3)
Thomas De Quincey
What the Reviews Said	300	(37)
Quarterly Review, January 1818	304	(6)
John Wilson Croker
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1818	310	(5)
Walter Scott
(Scots) Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, March 1818	315	(3)
Belle Assemblee, March 1818	318	(2)
The British Critic, April 1818	320	(3)
Gentleman's Magazine, April 1818	323	(1)
Monthly Review, April 1818	323	(1)
The Literary Panorama and National Register, June 1818	324	(1)
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1823	325	(1)
London Morning Post, July 1823	326	(2)
remarks in the House of Commons, March 1824	328	(1)
George Canning
Knight's Quarterly Magazine, August 1824	329	(3)
London Literary Gazette, November 1831	332	(1)
The Anthenœum, November 1832	333	(4)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Further Reading and Viewing	337