Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus
（A Longman cultural edition）
Pearson Longman, c2007
2nd ed
- : pbk
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Frankenstein
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"Further reading and viewing": p. 425-431
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Description
From the Longman Cultural Editions series, this second edition of Frankenstein presents Mary Shelley's remarkable novel in several provocative and illuminating contexts: cultural, critical, and literary.
Series Editor Susan J. Wolfson presents the 1818 version of Mary Shelley's famous novel in its cultural and historical contexts. Like all great works of fiction, Frankenstein gains depth and dimension from its "conversation" with contemporary texts, especially those by Shelley's own parents, husband, and friends. A lively introduction is complemented by a chronology coordinating Shelley's life with key historical events and a speculative calendar of the novel's events in the late eighteenth century. In addition to the 1818 text, this cultural edition features the introduction to and a sample revision of the 1831 version. New to this Edition is Frankentalk, a section of selected references to Frankenstein in the popular press, and the complete text of Richard Brinsley Peake's Frankenstein, A Romantic Drama, the first stage version of Frankenstein.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations About Longman Cultural Editions About This Edition Introduction Table of Dates Frankenstein
- or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) Volume I Volume II Volume III from Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1831) M. W. S.'s Introduction Some Additions to Robert Walton's first letters Some Additions and Revisions to Victor Frankenstein's Narrative Victor's childhood and the adoption of Elizabeth-Victor's enchantment with occult science and his encounter with modern science-Victor's departure for University of Ingolstadt-Clerval's straits-Victor meets Professors Krempe and Waldman-Victor's health suffers-Elizabeth's report on Ernest Frankenstein-Clerval's lament for William-Victor's anguish over Justine and William- Victor's continuing agony-[Creature's story of framing Justine]-Victor's plans for a second creature-Clerval's imperial ambitions-Victor's apprehensions for his family, his longing for oblivion-Victor's secret Contexts Monsters, Visionaries, and Mary Shelley Aesthetic Adventures Edmund Burke on "the Sublime and the Beautiful" Mary Wollstonecraft on Burke's genderings William Gilpin on "the Picturesque" Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798) Mary Wollstonecraft, from Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman: Jemima's story Mary Godwin (Shelley), from her journal of 1815: the death of her first baby Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Alasto
- or, The Spirit of Solitude Mary Shelley, with Percy Bysshe Shelley, from History of a Six Weeks' Tour: Alpine scenery Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mont Blanc George Gordon, Lord Byron from Manfred, A Dramatic Poem from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third: Alpine thunderstorm Leigh Hunt, from Blue-Stocking Revels, or The Feast of the Violets Dr. Benjamin Spock, from Baby and Child Care The Story-Telling Compact George Gordon, Lord Byron, A Fragment John William Polidori, The Vampyre God, Adam, and Satan Genesis: chapters 2 and 3 (King James Bible) John Milton, from Paradise Lost William Godwin, from Political Justice George Gordon, Lord Byron, Prometheus William Hazlitt, remarks on Satan, from Lectures on the English Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley from Prometheus Unbound from A Defence of Poetry Richard Brinsley Peake, Frankenstein, A Romantic Drama in Three Acts Reviews and Reactions [John Wilson Croker], Quarterly Review, January 1818 [Walter Scott], Blackwood's Edinburgh Review, March 1818 (Scot's) Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, March 1818 Belle Assemblee, March 1818 British Critic, April 1818 Gentleman's Magazine, April 1818 Monthly Review, April 1818 Literary Panorama, June 1818 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1823 London Morning Post, reviews of Peake's Frankenstein, July 1823 George Canning, remarks in Parliament, March 1824 Knight's Quarterly Magazine, August 1824 London Literary Gazette, 1831 [Percy Bysshe Shelley, posthumous], Anthenaeum, November 1832 Frankentalk: "Frankenstein" in the Popular Press of Today Further Reading and Viewing
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