Frankenstein (Original 1818 Text)

by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft; Scherf, Kathleen; Macdonald, D. L.

• ISBN13: 9781551113081
• ISBN10: 1551113082
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Broadview Pr

Summary

The California edition of the Pennyroyal Press "Frankenstein" unites the dark side of Barry Moser's art with the classic 1818 text of Mary Shelley's tale of moral transfiguration. In a vivid sequence of woodcuts, the reader witnesses the birth of the "monster" as Moser shapes him from darkness and gives him a form simultaneously ghastly in its malice and transfixing in its suffering.

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(2)
Introduction	11	(1)
The Education of Mary Shelley	12	(5)
The Education of Victor Frankenstein	17	(7)
The Education of the Monster	24	(8)
The Evolution of the Novel	32	(7)
A Note on the Text	39	(4)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: A Brief Chronology	43	(202)
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Volume I	45	(72)
Volume II	117	(58)
Volume III	175	(70)
Appendix A: The Education of Mary Shelley	245	(19)
1. Godwin	245	(9)
2. Wollstonecraft	254	(10)
Appendix B: The Education of Victor Frankenstein	264	(12)
1. Darwin	264	(6)
2. Davy	270	(6)
Appendix C: The Education of The Monster	276	(24)
1. Volney	276	(3)
2. Goethe	279	(6)
3. Plutarch	285	(7)
4. Milton	292	(4)
5. Wollstonecraft	296	(4)
Appendix D: Reviews of Frankenstein	300	(13)
1. Scott, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	300	(6)
2. The Edinburgh Magazine	306	(2)
3. Croker, Quarterly Review	308	(2)
4. P.B. Shelley, Athenaeum	310	(3)
Appendix E: Presumption (excerpt)	313	(3)
Appendix F: Substantive Variants in the 1831 Edition	316	(37)
Appendix G: Introduction [1831]	353	(7)
Works Cited/Recommended Reading	360