Frankenstein

by Shelley, Mary; Smith, Johanna M.

• ISBN13: 9780312191269
• ISBN10: 031219126X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-14
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

This series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of classic works of literature from all over the world.encompasses a variety of periods, themes, and authors.

Table of Contents

About the Series	iii
About This Volume	v
PART ONE Frankenstein: The Complete Text in Cultural Context
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts	3	(16)
The Complete Text	19	(171)
Contextual Documents	190	(47)
Things as They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794)	193	(4)
William Godwin
Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798)	197	(4)
Mary Wollstonecraft
[On Creation] (1531--1538)	201	(4)
Paracelsus
Emile, or On Education (1762)	205	(6)
Jean Jacques Rousseau
A Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802)	211	(11)
Humphry Davy
The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)	222	(2)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari (1791)	224	(1)
Luigi Galvani
A Galvanized Corpse (1836)	224	(1)
Frankenstein's Laboratory (James Whale's Frankenstein, 1931)	225	(1)
The Creature and His Bride-to-Be (The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935)	225	(1)
The Creature Enchained (The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935)	226	(1)
Frankenstein and the Racialized Creature (The Model Man, 1850)	226	(1)
``The Brummagem Frankenstein'' (1866)	227	(1)
John Tenniel
``The Irish Frankenstein'' (1882)	228	(1)
John Tenniel
Charles Ogle as the Creature (Edison's Frankenstein, 1910)	229	(1)
Boris Karloff as the Creature (James Whale's Frankenstein, 1931)	230	(1)
Christopher Lee as the Creature (The Curse of Frankenstein, 1957)	231	(1)
Keith Jochim as the Creature (Victor Gialanella's Frankenstein)	232	(1)
The Creature Attacking His Maker (Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, 1994)	233	(4)
PART TWO Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
A Critical History of Frankenstein	237	(25)
Psychoanalytic Criticism and Frankenstein	262	(34)
What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism?	262	(12)
Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography	274	(6)
A Psychoanalytic Perspective:
The Monster and the Maternal Thing: Mary Shelley's Critique of Ideology	280	(16)
David Collings
Feminist Criticism and Frankenstein	296	(38)
What Is Feminist Criticism?	296	(9)
Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography	305	(8)
A Feminist Perspective:
``Cooped Up'' with ``Sad Trash'': Domesticity and the Sciences in Frankenstein	313	(21)
Johanna M. Smith
Gender Criticism and Frankenstein	334	(34)
What Is Gender Criticism?	334	(11)
Gender Criticism: A Selected Bibliography	345	(4)
A Gender Perspective:
Lesbian Panic and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	349	(19)
Frann Michel
Marxist Criticism and Frankenstein	368	(28)
What Is Marxist Criticism?	368	(13)
Marxist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography	381	(3)
A Marxist Perspective:
The ``Workshop of Filthy Creation'': A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein	384	(12)
Warren Montag
Cultural Criticism and Frankenstein	396	(36)
What Is Cultural Criticism?	396	(14)
Cultural Criticism: A Selected Bibliography	410	(6)
A Cultural Perspective:
Frankenstein of the Nineties: The Composite Body	416	(16)
Bouriana Zakharieva
Combining Perspectives on Frankenstein	432	(18)
Reflections of Excess: Frankenstein, the French Revolution, and Monstrosity	435	(15)
Fred Botting
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms	450	(19)
About the Contributors	469