Frankenstein

by Roche, Ruth A.; Doyle, Debra; Webb, Hayward; Brewster, Ann; Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

• ISBN13: 9781578400447
• ISBN10: 1578400449
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Acclaim Books

Summary

This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text of Mary Shelley7;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

Acknowledgements

General Editors' Preface

Introduction

Production and Reproduction: The Case of Frankenstein

The Politics of Monstrosity

Narcissism as Symptom and Structure: The Case of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

What is a Monster? (According to Frankenstein)

A Feminist Critique of Science

Bearing Demons: Frankenstein's Circumvention of the Maternal

Narratives of Seduction and the Seductions of Narrative: The Frame Structure of Frankenstein

Frankenstein with Kant: A Theory of Monstrosity or the Monstrosity of Theory

Otherness in Frankenstein: The Confinement/Autonomy of Fabrication

Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism

Further Reading

Notes on Contributors

Index

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