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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.

Frankenstein : the 1818 text, contexts, criticism / Mary Shelley ; edited by J. Paul Hunter.

2nd ed.

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012.

xviii, 524 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.

This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes new texts and illustrative materials that convey the enduring global conversation about Frankenstein and its author. The text is that of the 1818 first edition, published in three volumes by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones. It is accompanied by an expansive new preface, explanatory annotations, a map of Geneva and its environs, and seven illustrations, five of them new to the Second Edition.

Norton critical edition

Norton critical edition.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851).

Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Scientists -- Fiction.

Science fiction.

Monsters fiction.

Horror fiction.

Hunter, J. Paul, 1934-

Includes bibliographical references (p. 523-524).

Mary Shelley -- Letter Prefaced to the Vampyre (1819) / John William Polidori -- Composition of Frankenstein / M.K. Joseph -- Assembling Frankenstein / Mary Shelley and the Power of Contemporary Science / Richard Holmes -- Significance of Place: Ingolstadt / Jane Goodall -- Reflections on the Frankenstein Notebooks and on Editorial Authority / Charles E. Robinson -- Choosing a Text of Frankenstein to Teach / Anne K. Mellor -- On Frankenstein / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Quarterly Review (January 1818) / John Croker -- Edinburgh Magazine (March 1818) / Sir Walter Scott -- On Frankenstein (March 1818) / Edinburgh Magazine -- On Frankenstein (April 1818) / Gentleman's Magazine -- On Frankenstein (August-November 1824) / Knight's Quarterly -- Hugh Reginald Haweis -- Reception of Frankenstein / Chris Baldick -- Frankenstein's Impact / William St. Clair -- Monster Lives On / Frankenstein as Historical Metaphor / Approaches to Frankenstein [in Film] / Biblical Account of Creation / The Book of Genesis -- From Paradise Lost / John Milton -- Mont Blanc (1816) / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Sea of Ice (1817) -- Mutability -- Prometheus / Lord Byron -- Darkness -- From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816) -- Old Familiar Faces / Charles Lamb -- Frankenstein and the Tradition of Realism / George Levine -- Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother / Ellen Moers -- Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve / Susan Gubar -- My Hideous Progeny: The Lady and the Monster / Mary Poovey -- Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein / Anne K. Mellor -- What is a Monster? (According to Frankenstein) / Peter Brooks -- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Spectacle of Masculinity / Bette London -- Frankenstein and Radical Science / Marilyn Butler -- Frankenstein, the True Story; or, Rousseau Judges Jean-Jacques / Lawrence Lipking -- In the Absence of Audience: Of Reading and Dread in Mary Shelley / Garrett Stewart -- Looking at the Monster: Frankenstein and Film / James A. W. Heffernan -- Reading Monster / Patrick Brantlinger -- Frankenstein and the State of Nature / Jonathan Bate -- Frankenstein, Racial Science, and the Yellow Peril / Anne K. Mellor -- Electrical Romanticism / Jane Goodall -- Geographic Boundaries and Inner Space: Frankenstein, Scientific Exploration, and the Quest for the Absolute / Christa Knellwolf.

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