Authors: Mary Shelley, Tom Casaletto
ISBN-13: 9781597371292, ISBN-10: 1597371297
Format: Other Format
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Date Published: September 2005
Edition: Unabridged, 7 CDs, 8 hours
Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on August 30, 1797 in London, the daughter of William Godwin--a radical philosopher and novelist, and Mary Wollstonecraft--a renowned feminist and the author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She eloped to France with Shelley in 1814, although they were not married until 1816, after the suicide of his first wife. She began work on Frankenstein in 1816 in Switzerland, while they were staying with Lord Byron, and it was published in 1818 to immediate acclaim. She died in London in 1851.
The original, 1818 text of the Classic novel.
. . .[T]he novel Frankenstein is quite a read. . . .It's highly Romantic, in the literary sense. . .[there is] a good deal of attractive torment and self-doubt, from both Victor Frankenstein and his creation. . . .If ever a book needed to be placed in context, it's Frankenstein. The New York Times Book Review
About the Series | ||
About This Volume | ||
Pt. 1 | Frankenstein: The Complete Text in Cultural Context | |
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Context | 3 | |
The Complete Text | 19 | |
Contextual Documents | 190 | |
from Things as They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) | 193 | |
from Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798) | 197 | |
[On Creation] (1531-1538) | 201 | |
from Emile, or On Education (1762) | 205 | |
A Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802) | 211 | |
from The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) | 222 | |
from De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari (1791) | 224 | |
A Galvanized Corpse (1836) | 224 | |
Frankenstein's Laboratory (James Whale's Frankenstein, 1931) | 225 | |
The Creature and His Bride-to-Be (The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935) | 225 | |
The Creature Enchained (The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935) | 226 | |
Frankenstein and the Racialized Creature (The Model Man, 1850) | 226 | |
"The Brummagem Frankenstein" (1866) | 227 | |
"The Irish Frankenstein" (1882) | 228 | |
Charles Ogle as the Creature (Edison's Frankenstein, 1910) | 229 | |
Boris Karloff as the Creature (James Whale's Frankenstein, 1931) | 230 | |
Christopher Lee as the Creature (The Curse of Frankenstein, 1957) | 231 | |
Keith Jochim as the Creature (Victor Gialanella's Frankenstein, 1981) | 232 | |
The Creature Attacking His Maker (Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, 1994) | 233 | |
Pt. 2 | Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism | |
A Critical History of Frankenstein | 237 | |
Psychoanalytic Criticism and Frankenstein | 262 | |
The Monster and the Maternal Thing: Mary Shelley's Critique of Ideology | 280 | |
Feminist Criticism and Frankenstein | 296 | |
"Cooped Up" with "Sad Trash": Domesticity and the Sciences in Frankenstein | 313 | |
Gender Criticism and Frankenstein | 334 | |
Lesbian Panic and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | 349 | |
Marxist Criticism and Frankenstein | 368 | |
The "Workshop of Filthy Creation": A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein | 384 | |
Cultural Criticism and Frankenstein | 396 | |
Frankenstein of the Nineties: The Composite Body | 416 | |
Combining Perspectives on Frankenstein | 432 | |
Reflections of Excess: Frankenstein, the French Revolution, and Monstrosity | 435 | |
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms | 450 | |
About the Contributors | 469 |