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| List of Illustrations | |
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| About Longman Cultural Editions | |
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| About This Edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Table of Dates Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) | |
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| Volume I | |
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| Volume II | |
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| Volume III from Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1831) | |
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| M. W. S.s Introduction | |
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| Some Additions to Robert Waltons first letters | |
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| Some Additions and Revisions to Victor Frankensteins Narrative | |
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| Victors childhood and the adoption of Elizabeth Victors enchantment with occult science and his encounter with modern science Victors departure for University of shy;Ingolstadt Clervals straits Victor meets Professors Krempe and Waldman Victors health suffers Elizabeths report on Ernest Frankenstein Clervals lament for William Victors anguish over Justine and William shy;Victors continuing agony [Creatures story of framing Justine] Victors plans for a second creature Clervals imperial ambitions Victors apprehensions for his family, his longing for oblivion Victors secret Contexts | |
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| Monsters, Visionaries, and Mary Shelley Aesthetic Adventures Edmund Burke on the Sublime and the Beautiful Mary Wollstonecraft on Burkes 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: Jemimas 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 Harolds 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 | |
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| Reviews and Reactions | |
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| [John Wilson Croker], Quarterly Review, January 1818 | |
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| [Walter Scott], Blackwoods Edinburgh Review, March 1818 | |
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| (Scots) Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, March 1818 | |
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| Belle Assemblee, March 1818 | |
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| British Critic, April 1818 | |
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| Gentlemans Magazine, April 1818 | |
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| Monthly Review, April 1818 | |
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| Literary Panorama, June 1818 | |
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| Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, March 1823 | |
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| London Morning Post, reviews of Peakes Frankenstein, July 1823 | |
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| George Canning, remarks in Parliament, March 1824 | |
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| Knights Quarterly Magazine, August 1824 | |
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| London Literary Gazette, 1831 | |
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| [Percy Bysshe Shelley, posthumous], Anthenum, November 1832 | |
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| Frankentalk: Frankenstein in the Popular Press of Today | |
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| Further Reading and Viewing | |