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Frankenstein : the 1818 text, contexts, nineteenth-century responses, modern criticism / Mary Shelley ; edited by J. Paul Hunter.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 (Author). Hunter, J. Paul, 1934- (Added Author).

Summary:

[In this text], Contemporary perspective is provided in two supporting sections. "Contexts" includes related writings by Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John William Polidori. "Nineteenth-Century Responses" gathers six reactions to Frankenstein's publication from the years 1818 to 1886, including those by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Hugh Reginald Haweis. "Criticism" is a collection of twelve seminal essays that provide a variety of perspectives on "Frankenstein" by Christopher Small, George Levine ... Marilyn Butler, and Lawrence Lipking.

Record details

ISBN: 0393964582 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780393964585 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xii, 339 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Edition: A Norton Critical Edition, First Edition.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:	New September 2011. Requested by Sandra Barber.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-336).
Formatted Contents Note:	The Text of Frankenstein -- Contexts -- Nineteenth-century responses -- Modern Criticism -- [Percy] Shelley and Frankenstein / Christopher Small -- Frankenstein and the tradition of realism / George Levine -- Female gothic: the monster's mother / Ellen Moers -- Mary Shelley's monstrous eve / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar -- My monster/ my self / Barbara Johnson -- "My hideous progeny": the lady and the monster / Mary Poovey -- [Frankenstein and a critique of imperialism] / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- The women of Frankenstein / William Veeder -- Possessing nature: the female in Frankenstein / Anne K. Mellor -- Coming unstrung: women, men, narrative and principles of pleasure / Susan Winnett -- Frankenstein and radical science / Marilyn Butler -- Frankenstein, the true story; or, Rousseau Judges Jean-Jacques -- Mary Shelley: a chronology.