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Frankenstein

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ISBN-10: 031219126X

ISBN-13: 9780312191269

Edition: 2nd 2000

Authors: Mary W. Shelley, Johanna M. Smith, Johanna M. Smith

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This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text of Mary Shelley’s English Romantic novel along with critical essays that introduce students toFrankensteinfrom contemporary psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, gender, and cultural studies perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how various critical perspectives can be combined. In the second edition, 3 of the 6 essays are new. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents, introductions (with bibliographies), and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.
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Book details

List price: $17.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 4/14/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.17" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

About the Series
About This Volume
Frankenstein: The Complete Text in Cultural Context
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts
The Complete Text
Contextual Documents
from Things as They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794)
from Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798)
[On Creation] (1531-1538)
from Emile, or On Education (1762)
A Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802)
from The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
from De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari (1791)
A Galvanized Corpse (1836)
Frankenstein's Laboratory (James Whale's Frankenstein, 1931)
The Creature and His Bride-to-Be (The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935)
The Creature Enchained (The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935)
Frankenstein and the Racialized Creature (The Model Man, 1850)
"The Brummagem Frankenstein" (1866)
"The Irish Frankenstein" (1882)
Charles Ogle as the Creature (Edison's Frankenstein, 1910)
Boris Karloff as the Creature (James Whale's Frankenstein, 1931)
Christopher Lee as the Creature (The Curse of Frankenstein, 1957)
Keith Jochim as the Creature (Victor Gialanella's Frankenstein, 1981)
The Creature Attacking His Maker (Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, 1994)
Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
A Critical History of Frankenstein
Psychoanalytic Criticism and Frankenstein
What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism?
Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
A Psychoanalytic Perspective
The Monster and the Maternal Thing: Mary Shelley's Critique of Ideology
Feminist Criticism and Frankenstein
What Is Feminist Criticism?
Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
A Feminist Perspective
"Cooped Up" with "Sad Trash": Domesticity and the Sciences in Frankenstein
Gender Criticism and Frankenstein
What Is Gender Criticism?
Gender Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
A Gender Perspective
Lesbian Panic and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Marxist Criticism and Frankenstein
What Is Marxist Criticism?
Marxist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
A Marxist Perspective
The "Workshop of Filthy Creation": A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein
Cultural Criticism and Frankenstein
What Is Cultural Criticism?
Cultural Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
A Cultural Perspective
Frankenstein of the Nineties: The Composite Body
Combining Perspectives on Frankenstein
Reflections of Excess: Frankenstein, the French Revolution, and Monstrosity
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms
About the Contributors