Text of Frankenstein -- Contexts: Introduction to Frankenstein, Third Edition (1831) / Mary Shelley; Mont Blanc (1816) / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Nineteenth-Century responses: On Frankenstein (1817) / Percy Bysshe Shelley; From the Quarterly Review (January 1818) / [John Croker] -- Modern criticism: [Percy] Shelley and Frankenstein / Christopher Small; Frankenstein and the tradition of realism / George Levine.
Summary:
[In this text], Contemporary perspective is provided in two supporting sections. "Contexts" includes related writings by Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John William Polidori. "Nineteenth-Century Responses" gathers six reactions to Frankenstein's publication from the years 1818 to 1886, including those by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Hugh Reginald Haweis. "Criticism" is a collection of twelve seminal essays that provide a variety of perspectives on "Frankenstein" by Christopher Small, George Levine ... Marilyn Butler, and Lawrence Lipking.
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