Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Contexts, Nineteenth-Century

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Contexts, Nineteenth-Century Responses, Modern Criticism
- Comprehensive study of the book Frankenstein
- Presents the full original 1818 text
- Presents various contexts by the author and others of the day
- Presents 19th century responses and with exerpts from magazines
- Presents modern day criticism and author chronological biography
The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the 1818 first edition, published in three volumes by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, in which only obvious typographical errors have been corrected. This text represents what Frankenstein's first readers encountered and is the text favored by scholars. A special critical section, Composition and Revision, includes essays by M. K. Joseph and Anne Mellor that address the issues surrounding teachers' choice of text.
Contemporary perspectives of the text are provided in two sections: Contexts helps place the novel in relation to the mind of its creator through writings by Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John William Polidori; Nineteenth-Century Responses collects six reactions to the book from the years 1818 to 1886.

Criticism brings together twelve seminal essays. The emphasis is on rangeâ€•both critical (psychoanalytic, mythic, new historicist, and feminist essays are included) and chronological (essays span the last thirty years). Christopher Small, George Lebine, Ellen Moers, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Barbara Johnson, Mary Poovey, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, William Veeder, Anne K. Mellor, Susan Winnett, Marilyn Butler, and Lawrence Lipking provide diverse perspectives.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W W Norton & Co Inc
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780393964585
ReleaseDate 1995-12-17
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EANs 9780393964585

Country	USA
Brand	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W W Norton & Co Inc
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780393964585
ReleaseDate	1995-12-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780393964585

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Contexts, Nineteenth-Century Responses, Modern Criticism

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