Authors: Mary Shelley, Susan J. Wolfson, Susan Wolfson
ISBN-13: 9780321399533, ISBN-10: 0321399536
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Date Published: July 2006
Edition: 2nd Edition
Susan J. Wolfson is professor of English at Princeton University. In addition to this present volume, her editorial work includes Felicia Hemans (Princeton UP, 2000) and the Longman Cultural Edition of John Keats. With Claudia Johnson, she is coeditor of the Longman Cultural Edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. With Peter Manning, she is coeditor of the Romantics volume in The Longman Anthology of British Literature, and Selected Poems of Lord Byron (Penguin, 2005). Her critical books include the prize-winning Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism (Stanford UP, 1997) and Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism (Stanford UP, 2007).
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. A lively introduction 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. In addition to the 1818 text, this cultural edition features the introduction to and a sample revision of the 1831 version. New to this Edition is Frankentalk, a section of selected references to Frankenstein in the popular press, and the complete text of Richard Brinsley Peake’s Frankenstein, A Romantic Drama, the first stage version of Frankenstein.
Frankenstein; or, the modern Prometheus (1818) | 1 | |
from Frankenstein : or, the modern Prometheus (1831) | 180 | |
Monsters, visionaries, and Mary Shelley | 211 | |
Edmund Burke on "the sublime and the beautiful" | 212 | |
Mary Wollstonecraft on Burke's genderings | 215 | |
William Gilpin on "the picturesque" | 216 | |
from The rime of the ancyent marinere (1798) | 218 | |
from The wrongs of woman; or Maria : Jemima's story | 228 | |
Mary Godwin (Shelley), from her journal of 1815 : the death of her first baby | 245 | |
from Alastor; or, the spirit of solitude | 247 | |
from History of a six weeks' tour : alpine scenery | 256 | |
Mont Blanc | 258 | |
from Manfred, a dramatic poem | 263 | |
from Childe Harold's pilgrimage, canto the third : alpine thunderstorm | 267 | |
from Blue-stocking revels, or the feast of the violets | 269 | |
from Baby and child care | 270 | |
A fragment | 274 | |
The vampyre | 280 | |
Genesis : chapters 2 and 3 (King James Bible) | 302 | |
from Paradise lost | 304 | |
from Political justice | 314 | |
Prometheus | 315 | |
Remarks on Satan, from Lectures on the English poets | 317 | |
from Prometheus unbound | 319 | |
from A defence of poetry | 321 | |
Richard Brinsley Peake, Frankenstein, a romantic drama in three acts (1823) | 323 | |
Review and relations | 369 | |
[John Wilson Croker], Quarterly Review, January 1818 | 372 | |
[Walter Scott], Blackwood's Edingburgh Magazine, March 1818 | 377 | |
(Scots) Edinburgh Magazine and literary miscellany, March 1818 | 382 | |
Belle Assemblee, March 1818 | 385 | |
British Critic, April 1818 | 386 | |
Gentleman's Magazine, April 1818 | 389 | |
Monthly Review, April 1818 | 389 | |
Literary Panorama, June 1818 | 390 | |
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1823 | 391 | |
London Morning Post, reviews of Peake's Frankenstein, July 1823 | 392 | |
George Canning, remarks in Parliament, March 1824 | 394 | |
Knight's Quarterly Magazine, August 1824 | 395 | |
London Literary Gazette, November 1831 | 398 | |
[Percy Bysshe Shelley, posthumous], Anthenaeum, November 1832 | 399 | |
Frankentalk : Frankenstein in the popular press of today | 402 |