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Mary Shelley (1797-1851). British novelist and short story writer. Best known as the author of Frankenstein, written when she was 18. Wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, daughter of political writer William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Patrick McGrath was born in London. He is the author of Blood and Water and Other Tales, The Grotesque, Spider, Asylum, and other novels. He lives in New York City and London.

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Part I: Frankenstein: The Complete Text * Introduction * The Complete Text * Print Document * Visual Documents * Part II: Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism * A Psychoanalytic Perspective: David Collings, "The Monster and the Imaginary Monster: A Lacanian Reading of Frankenstein" * A Marxist Perspective: Warren Montag, "'The Workshop of Filthy Creation': A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein" * A Feminist Perspective: Johanna M. Smith, "'Cooped Up: Feminine Domesticity in Frankenstein" * New A Gender Critic's Perspective: Frann Michel, "Lesbian Panic and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" * New A Cultural Critic's Perspective: Bouriana Zakharieva, "Frankenstein of the Nineties: The Composite Body" * New Combining Perspectives: Fred Botting, "Reflections of Excess: Frankenstein, the French Revolution, and Monstrosity"

Part I: Frankenstein: The Complete Text * Introduction * The Complete Text * Print Document * Visual Documents * Part II: Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism * A Psychoanalytic Perspective: David Collings, "The Monster and the Imaginary Monster: A Lacanian Reading of Frankenstein" * A Marxist Perspective: Warren Montag, "'The Workshop of Filthy Creation': A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein" * A Feminist Perspective: Johanna M. Smith, "'Cooped Up: Feminine Domesticity in Frankenstein" * New A Gender Critic's Perspective: Frann Michel, "Lesbian Panic and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" * New A Cultural Critic's Perspective: Bouriana Zakharieva, "Frankenstein of the Nineties: The Composite Body" * New CombiningPerspectives: Fred Botting, "Reflections of Excess: Frankenstein, the French Revolution, and Monstrosity"