Mary Shelley

Frankenstein


A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION



Contents


Preface

The Text of Frankenstein
  MAP: Geneva and Its Environs
  Title page (1818)
  Dedication (1818)
  Preface
  Frankenstein
  COMPOSITION AND REVISION
    M. K. Joseph · The Composition of Frankenstein
    Anne K. Mellor · Choosing a Text of Frankenstein to Teach

Contexts
    Mary Shelley · Introduction to Frankenstein, Third Edition
      ·1831)
      · Letter to [?Fanny Imlay] (June 1816)
    Percy Bysshe Shelley · Mont Blanc (1816)
      · [The Sea of Ice ] (1817)
    George Gordon, Lord Byron · From Childe Harold's
      Pilgrimage, Canto III (1817)
    [John William Polidori] · Letter Prefaced to The
      Vampyre
(1819)

Nineteenth-Century Responses
    Percy Bysshe Shelley · On Frankenstein (1817)
    [John Croker] · From the Quarterly Review (January 1818)
    Anonymous · From Edinburgh Magazine (March 1818)
    Anonymous · From Gentleman's Magazine (April 1818)
    Anonymous · From Knight's Quarterly (Aug.-Nov. 1824)
    Hugh Reginald Haweis · Introduction to the Routledge World
      Library Edition (1886)
    
Modern Criticism
    Christopher Small · [Percy] Shelley and Frankenstein
    George Levine · Frankenstein and the Tradition of Realism
    Ellen Moers · Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother
    Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar · Mary Shelley's Monstrous
      Eve
    Barbara Johnson · My Monster/ My Self
    Mary Poovey · "My Hideous Progeny": The Lady and the Monster
    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak · [Frankenstein and a Critique of
      Imperialism]
    William Veeder · The Women of Frankenstein
    Anne K. Mellor · Possessing Nature: The Female in
      Frankenstein
    Susan Winnett · Coming Unstrung: Women, Men, Narrative, and
      Principles of Pleasure
    Marilyn Butler · Frankenstein and Radical Science
    Lawrence Lipking · Frankenstein, the True
      Story; or, Rousseau Judges Jean-Jacques

Mary Shelley: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography





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