Frankenstein (Norton Critical Editions)

by Shelley, Mary; Hunter, J. Paul

• ISBN13: 9780393964585
• ISBN10: 0393964582
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-12-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text of Mary Shelley's English Romantic novel along with critical essays that introduce students to "Frankenstein" from contemporary psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, gender, and cultural studies perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how various critical perspectives can be combined. In the second edition, 3 of the 6 essays are new. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents, introductions (with bibliographies), and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Text of Frankenstein	2	(167)
MAP: Geneva and Its Environs	2	(1)
Title page (1818)	3	(1)
Dedication (1818)	4	(1)
Preface	5	(2)
Frankenstein	7	(150)
COMPOSITION AND REVISION	157	(12)
M. K. Joseph
The Composition of Frankenstein	157	(3)
Anne K. Mellor
Choosing a Text of Frankenstein to Teach	160	(9)
Contexts	169	(16)
Mary Shelley
Introduction to Frankenstein, Third Edition (1831)	169	(6)
Letter to [?Fanny Imlay] (June 1816)	173	(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mont Blanc (1816)	175	(5)
[The Sea of Ice] (1817)	179	(1)
George Gordon, Lord Byron
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1817)	180	(2)
John William Polidori
Letter Prefaced to The Vampyre (1819)	182	(3)
Nineteenth-Century Responses	185	(20)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
On Frankenstein (1817)	185	(2)
John Croker
From the Quarterly Review (January 1818)	187	(4)
Anonymous
From Edinburgh Magazine (March 1818)	191	(5)
Anonymous
From Gentleman's Magazine (April 1818)	196	(1)
Anonymous
From Knight's Quarterly (Aug.-Nov. 1824)	197	(3)
Hugh Reginald Haweis
Introduction to the Routledge World Library Edition (1886)	200	(5)
Modern Criticism	205	(128)
Christopher Small
[Percy] Shelley and Frankenstein	205	(3)
George Levine
Frankenstein and the Tradition of Realism	208	(6)
Ellen Moers
Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother	214	(11)
Sandra M. Gilbert
Susan Gubar
Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve	225	(16)
Barbara Johnson
My Monster/My Self	241	(10)
Mary Poovey
"My Hideous Progeny": The Lady and the Monster	251	(11)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
[Frankenstein and a Critique of Imperialism]	262	(9)
William Veeder
The Women of Frankenstein	271	(3)
Anne K. Mellor
Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein	274	(13)
Susan Winnett
Coming Unstrung: Women, Men, Narrative, and Principles of Pleasure	287	(15)
Marilyn Butler
Frankenstein and Radical Science	302	(11)
Lawrence Lipking
Frankenstein, the True Story; or, Rousseau Judges Jean-Jacques	313	(20)
Mary Shelley: A Chronology	333	(2)
Selected Bibliography	335