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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: A Norton critical editionPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, 1995.Description: xii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0393964582
  • 9780393964585
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR 5397 .F73 M36 1995
Partial contents:
Text of Frankenstein -- Contexts: Introduction to Frankenstein, Third Edition (1831) / Mary Shelley; Mont Blanc (1816) / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Nineteenth-Century responses: On Frankenstein (1817) / Percy Bysshe Shelley; From the Quarterly Review (January 1818) / [John Croker] -- Modern criticism: [Percy] Shelley and Frankenstein / Christopher Small; Frankenstein and the tradition of realism / George Levine.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-336).

Text of Frankenstein -- Contexts: Introduction to Frankenstein, Third Edition (1831) / Mary Shelley; Mont Blanc (1816) / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Nineteenth-Century responses: On Frankenstein (1817) / Percy Bysshe Shelley; From the Quarterly Review (January 1818) / [John Croker] -- Modern criticism: [Percy] Shelley and Frankenstein / Christopher Small; Frankenstein and the tradition of realism / George Levine.

[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.

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