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Frankenstein, A Longman Cultural Edition
Mary Shelley
Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University

ISBN-10: 0321096983
ISBN-13: 9780321096982

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2003
Format: Paper; 384 pp
Published: 08/12/2002

This item has been replaced by Frankenstein, A Longman Cultural Edition, 2/E.

This edition of Frankenstein , or The Modern Prometheus , presents Mary Shelley's remarkable novel in several provocative and illuminating contexts: cultural, critical, and literary.

As part of Longman's new Cultural Edition series of novels, Susan Wolfson presents the 1818 version of Mary Shelley's famous novel in its cultural and historical contexts. Like all great works of fiction, Frankenstein gains depth and dimension from its "conversation" with contemporary texts, especially by Shelley's parents, husband, and friends. In addition to the 1818 text, this cultural edition features the introduction to and a sample revision of the 1831 version. A lively introduction to the edition is complemented by a chronology coordinating Shelley's life with key historical events and a speculative calendar of the novel's events in the late eighteenth century.

Complete 1818 edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , with a provocative introduction to Mary Shelley and the novel and helpful footnotes identify sources, references, and allusions.

A sample of the 1831 revision, the adoption of Elizabeth Lavenza by the Frankensteins, provides a contrast to the rejected creature, replete with overtones of racial thinking and class prejudice.

Table of dates presents Mary Shelley's life and the development of Frankenstein in relation to key historical events and publications during the age.

Texts from Shelley's Romantic contemporaries in the section on "Monsters, Visionaries and Mary Shelley" provide the contexts for allusions, references, and collateral productions, such as Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, Wollstonecraft's Story of Jemima from Maria, Mary Shelley's journal entry on the death of her baby, Percy Shelley's poetry, Byron's poetry and ghost-story, the first stage version of Frankenstein, and Dr. Spock on "Baby and Child Care."

Selections from 14 contemporary reviews of the 1818 novel, including those by Sir Walter Scott and Percy Shelley, illustrate what shocked the reviewers, and the popularly held belief that "only a man could write this novel."

An entire section on the connection between Frankenstein and Milton's Paradise Lost in "Milton's Satan and Romantic Imaginations" demonstrates the complex references to Milton's work throughout the novel. The selections include Paradise Lost and the chapter in Genesis (1-2) from the Old Testament, along with Shelley's contemporary Romantics on Satan: Godwin, Byron, Keats, Hazlitt, Percy Shelley, and DeQuincey.

A bibliography of critical studies on Frankenstein; the history of stage and cinematic interpretations; a guide for the student, the browser, and the curious provide suggestions for further reading and viewing.

Preface.

Monsters, Visionaries, and Mary Shelley.

Aesthetic Adventures.

Edmund Burke, “On the Sublime and the Beautiful,” from A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful.

Mary Wollstonecraft, from A Vindication of the Rights of Men.

William Gilpin, from Picturesque Travel.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, 1798.

Mary Wollstonecraft, Jemima's Story from Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman.

Mary Godwin (Shelley), journal entries.

Percy Shelley, from Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude.

Mary Shelley, from History of a Six Weeks' Tour.

Percy Shelley, Mont Blanc.

George Gordon, Lord Byron, Canto 3 from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage III.

George Gordon, George Gordon, Lord Byron, A Fragment.

Richard Brinsley Peake, from Frankenstein, A Romantic Drama.

Mary Shelley, from a letter to E. J. Trelawny.

Dr. Benjamin Spock, “Enjoy Your Baby,” from Baby and Child Care.

Milton's Satan and Romantic Imaginations.

The King James Bible, Genesis, Chapters 2 and 3.

John Milton, from Paradise Lost.

William Godwin, from “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice.

George Gordon, Lord Byron, “Prometheus.”

John Keats, To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent.

John Keats, Marginalia to Paradise Lost.

William Hazlitt, “On Shakespeare and Milton,” from Lectures on the English Poets.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Preface Prometheus Unbound.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, from A Defence of Poetry.

Thomas De Quincey, “What Do We Mean by Literature?”

What the Reviews Said.

John Wilson Croker, Quarterly Review, January 1818.

Walter Scott, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1818.

Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, March 1818.

Belle Assemblàe, March 1818.

The British Critic, April 1818.

Gentleman's Magazine, April 1818.

Monthly Review, April 1818.

The Literary Panorama and National Register, June 1818.

Knight's Quarterly Magazine, August 1824.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1823.

London Morning Post, July 1823.

George Canning, remarks in the House of Commons, March 1824.

Knight's Quarterly Magazine, August 1824.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Anthenæum, November 1832.

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From the Longman Cultural Editions series, this second edition of Frankenstein presents Mary Shelley's remarkable novel in several provocative and illuminating contexts: cultural, critical, and literary.

Series Editor Susan J. Wolfson presents the 1818 version of Mary Shelley's famous novel in its cultural and historical contexts. Like all great works of fiction, Frankenstein gains depth and dimension from its "conversation" with contemporary texts, especially those by Shelley's own parents, husband, and friends. In addition to the 1818 text, this cultural edition features the introduction to and a sample revision of the 1831 version. A lively introduction to the edition is complemented by a chronology coordinating Shelley's life with key historical events and a speculative calendar of the novel's events in the late eighteenth century.

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