Mary Shelley, Frankenstein : the 1818 text, contexts, nineteenth-century responses, criticism / edited by J. Paul Hunter. - New York : W.W. Norton, 1995. - xii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. - A Norton critical edition. .

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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Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character)
Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character)


Women and literature--History--England--19th century.
Horror tales, English--History and criticism.
Monsters in literature.

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