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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; Edited by Johanna M. Smith  - Third Edition, 2016 from Macmillan Student Store
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Third  Edition|©2016  Mary Shelley; Edited by Johanna M. Smith

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Gain deeper insight into the original 1831 text of Frankenstein by studying the book alongside a variety of additional resources. Approach the book with a more critical eye thanks to supportive essays, contextual documents, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.

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Contents

Table of Contents

Part One   Frankenstein: The Complete Text in Cultural Context
Biographical and Historical Contexts
    The Complete Text
Part Two   Frankenstein in Cultural Context
Part Three   Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
A Critical History of Frankenstein
Psychoanalytic Criticism and Frankenstein 
     David Collings, “The Monster and the Maternal Thing:  Mary Shelley’s Critique of Ideology”
Feminist Criticism and Frankenstein
      Johanna M. Smith, “’Cooped Up” with “Sad Trash”:  Domesticity and the Sciences in Frankenstein”
Marxist Criticism and Frankenstein
      Warren Montag, “’The Workshop of Filthy Creation’:  A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein”
Gender Criticism/Queer Theory and Frankenstein
New     Grant F. Scott, “Victor’s Secret: Queer Gothic in Lynd Ward’s Illustrations to Frankenstein (1934)”
Cultural Criticism and Frankenstein
New     Siobhan Carroll, “Crusades Against Frost: Frankenstein, Polar Ice, and Climate Change in 1818”
Postcolonial Criticism and Frankenstein
New     Allan Lloyd Smith, “’This Thing of Darkness’: Racial Discourse in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”

Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms

 

Authors

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley (August 30th, 1797-February 1st, 1851) is considered one of the greatest writers of her time. She is best known as the author of the classic gothic novel Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus.


Johanna M. Smith

Johanna M. Smith is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she teaches drama, law and literature, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature.  She has published numerous articles in the latter fields, as well as a Twayne guide to Mary Shelley and a coedited anthology of eighteenth-century British women's life writings.  Her current research focus is British women in the public sphere from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century.


A long-awaited revision of the bestselling Case Study in Contemporary Criticism: Frankenstein

Gain deeper insight into the original 1831 text of Frankenstein by studying the book alongside a variety of additional resources. Approach the book with a more critical eye thanks to supportive essays, contextual documents, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.

E-book

Read online (or offline) with all the highlighting and notetaking tools you need to be successful in this course.

Learn More

Table of Contents

Part One   Frankenstein: The Complete Text in Cultural Context
Biographical and Historical Contexts
    The Complete Text
Part Two   Frankenstein in Cultural Context
Part Three   Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
A Critical History of Frankenstein
Psychoanalytic Criticism and Frankenstein 
     David Collings, “The Monster and the Maternal Thing:  Mary Shelley’s Critique of Ideology”
Feminist Criticism and Frankenstein
      Johanna M. Smith, “’Cooped Up” with “Sad Trash”:  Domesticity and the Sciences in Frankenstein”
Marxist Criticism and Frankenstein
      Warren Montag, “’The Workshop of Filthy Creation’:  A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein”
Gender Criticism/Queer Theory and Frankenstein
New     Grant F. Scott, “Victor’s Secret: Queer Gothic in Lynd Ward’s Illustrations to Frankenstein (1934)”
Cultural Criticism and Frankenstein
New     Siobhan Carroll, “Crusades Against Frost: Frankenstein, Polar Ice, and Climate Change in 1818”
Postcolonial Criticism and Frankenstein
New     Allan Lloyd Smith, “’This Thing of Darkness’: Racial Discourse in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”

Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms

 

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley (August 30th, 1797-February 1st, 1851) is considered one of the greatest writers of her time. She is best known as the author of the classic gothic novel Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus.


Johanna M. Smith

Johanna M. Smith is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she teaches drama, law and literature, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature.  She has published numerous articles in the latter fields, as well as a Twayne guide to Mary Shelley and a coedited anthology of eighteenth-century British women's life writings.  Her current research focus is British women in the public sphere from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century.


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