Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

by Morton; Timothy

• ISBN13: 9780415227322
• ISBN10: 0415227321
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-09-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

One of the most terrifying and sublime novels of the Romantic period, Frankensteinhas remained an indelible creation, appearing in everything from B-movies to erotica. This sourcebook examines Mary Shelley's novel within its literary and cultural contexts, exploring the contexts from which Frankensteinemerged, the early reception of the novel, adaptation and performance of the work and recent criticism on it. The text also includes carefully annotated key passages from the novel and concludes with a list of recommended editions and further reading, to allow readers to pursue the areas of study that intrigue them.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
Series Editor's Preface	xii
Acknowledgements	xiii
Introduction	1	(6)
Contexts
Contextual Overview	7	(4)
Further Reading	10	(1)
Chronology	11	(6)
Contemporary Documents	17	(20)
Introduction	17	(1)
An Enquiry into the Probability and Rationality of Mr. Hunter's Theory of Life: Being the Subject of the First Two Anatomical Lectures Delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, of London (1814)	17	(3)
John Abernethy
An Introduction to Comparative Anatomy and Physiology; Being the Two Introductory Lectures Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons, on the 21st and 25th of March, 1816 (1816)	20	(3)
William Lawrence
Quarterly Review (1820)	23	(1)
The Last Man. By the Author of Frankenstein (1826)	24	(2)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Journals of Mary Shelley (1814--44)	26	(2)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	28	(2)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Letters Written in Geneva (1817)	30	(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Further Reading	32	(5)
Interpretations
Presumption, Science and Religion: Early Receptions of Frankenstein	37	(8)
Introduction	37	(1)
Reviews	37	(1)
Anon., `The Belle Assemblee, or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine' (March 1818)	37	(1)
Anon., Review of Presumption; or The Fate of Frankenstein (Richard Brinsley Peake's adaptation), the London Morning Post (1823)	38	(2)
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)	40	(2)
Sir Walter Scott
`On ``Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus''' (1818)	42	(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Further Reading	44	(1)
Why Did You Make Me Like This?! Performing Frankenstein	45	(35)
Introduction	45	(2)
Frankenphemes	47	(1)
Presumption: Or the Fate of Frankenstein	48	(7)
Richard Brinsley Peake
`This New Promethean Fire: Radioactive Monsters and Sustainable Nuclear Futures'	55	(3)
Kathleen Sullivan
Adaptations and Hybrids	58	(1)
Translations	58	(1)
Frankensteinian fictions	59	(1)
Frankensteinian erotica	59	(1)
Theatrical adaptations	59	(5)
Film adaptations	64	(1)
Early films: genesis of a genre	64	(2)
Revisions and multiple-monster films	66	(5)
The Hammer films	71	(1)
Comedy	71	(2)
Films exploring sexuality	73	(1)
Cybernetics, doppelgangers, genetic engineering and replicants	74	(2)
Politics, race and class	76	(1)
Biographical and historical films	76	(1)
Other films	77	(1)
Television adaptations	78	(1)
Frankenstein in music	79	(1)
Multimedia and interactive	79	(1)
Other media	79	(1)
Modern Criticism	80	(49)
Introduction	80	(2)
The Body, Medicine and Science	82	(1)
`The Shelleys and Radical Science' (1994)	82	(3)
Marilyn Butler
Murdering to Dissect: Graverobbing, Frankenstein, and the Anatomy Literature (1995)	85	(4)
Tim Marshall
`The Monstrous Body of Knowledge in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein' (1995)	89	(1)
Alan Rauch
`Frankenstein: The Mother, the Daughter, and the Monster' (1991)	89	(1)
Paul Youngquist
Commodity Culture and Social Structure	90	(1)
`Production Replaces Creation: Market Forces and Frankenstein as Critique of Romanticism' (1988)	90	(1)
Elsie B. Michie
Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms (1983)	90	(2)
Franco Moretti
Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 1780--1832 (1994)	92	(4)
Alan Richardson
Gender and Queer Theories	96	(1)
`In the Romantic Tradition: Frankenstein and The Rocky Horror Picture Show' (1987)	96	(3)
Rolf Eichler
`Is There a Woman in This Text?' (1982)	99	(3)
Mary Jacobus
`Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Spectacle of Masculinity' (1993)	102	(1)
Bette London
Between Men: English Literature and Homosocial Desire (1985)	103	(1)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Genre, Literary Form and Literary History	104	(1)
`Parenting Frankenstein' (1996)	104	(1)
Zachary Leader
The Surprising Effects of Sympathy: Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley (1988)	105	(1)
David Marshall
`Frankenstein's Ghost Story: The Last Jacobin Novel' (1986)	105	(3)
Michael Scrivener
Language and Psyche	108	(1)
`Godlike Science/Unhallowed Arts: Language and Monstrosity in Frankenstein' (1978)	108	(1)
Peter Brooks
`Periphrastic Naming in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein' (1995)	108	(1)
Bernard Duyfhuizen
`My Monster/My Self' (1987)	109	(3)
Barbara Johnson
`Filthy Types: Frankenstein, Figuration, Femininity' (1996)	112	(1)
Steven Vine
Race, Colonialism and Orientalism	112	(1)
`Standards of Taste, Discourses of ``Race'', and the Aesthetic Education of a Monster: Critique of Empire in Frankenstein' (1994)	112	(1)
Elizabeth A. Bohls
`Frankenstein's Monster and Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain' (1993)	113	(3)
H.L. Malchow
Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: the Body and the Natural World (1994)	116	(5)
Timothy Morton
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a Theory of the Vanishing Present (1999)	121	(6)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Key Passages
Introduction	127	(2)
Key Passages of Frankenstein	129	(54)
Further Reading
Recommended Editions	177	(1)
Further Reading	177	(6)
Directory of Figures	183	(8)
Index	191