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Author:

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.

Title:

Frankenstein : the 1818 text, contexts, nineteenth-century responses, modern criticism / Mary Shelley ; edited by J. Paul Hunter.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton,

Copyright Date:

c1996

Description:

xii, 339 p. : map ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,--1797-1851.--Frankenstein.
Women and literature--England--History--19th century.
Horror tales, English--History and criticism.
Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character)
Scientists in literature.
Monsters in literature.
Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character)

Other Authors:

Hunter, J. Paul, 1934-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-336).

Contents:

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.

Series:

A Norton critical edition

ISBN:

9780393964585 (pbk.)
0393964582 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)33045872

LCCN:

95037928

Locations:

O4AX446 -- Chadwick Library

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

FGPD194 -- New Hampton Public Library (New Hampton)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

SMPE094 -- Waverly Public Library (Waverly)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)