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Author Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.

Title Frankenstein : complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives / Mary Shelley ; edited by Johanna M. Smith
Published Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press ; Basingstoke : Macmillan, [1992]
©1992

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Description x, 358 pages : illustrations ; 21cm
Series Case studies in contemporary criticism
Case studies in contemporary criticism.
Contents Pt. 1. Frankenstein: The Complete Text. Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts. The Complete Text. Introduction. Preface -- Pt. 2. Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism. A Critical History of Frankenstein. Reader-Response Criticism and Frankenstein. What Is Reader-Response Criticism? Reader-Response Criticism: A Selected Bibliography. A Reader-Response Perspective on Frankenstein. Reading with a "Nicer Eye": Responding to Frankenstein / Mary Lowe-Evans. Psychoanalytic Criticism and Frankenstein. What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism? Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography. A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Frankenstein. The Monster and the Imaginary Mother: A Lacanian Reading of Frankenstein / David Collings. Feminist Criticism and Frankenstein. What Is Feminist Criticism? Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography. A Feminist Perspective on Frankenstein. "Cooped Up": Feminine Domesticity in Frankenstein / Johanna M. Smith
Marxist Criticism and Frankenstein. What Is Marxist Criticism? Marxist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography. A Marxist Perspective on Frankenstein. "The Workshop of Filthy Creation": A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein / Warren Montag. Cultural Criticism and Frankenstein. What Is Cultural Criticism? Cultural Criticism: A Selected Bibliography. A Cultural Critical Perspective on Frankenstein. Frankenstein and the Cultural Uses of Gothic / Lee E. Heller
Summary Tells the story of a scientist who discovers the secret of generating life from lifeless matter, and puts this knowledge to use by creating a monster being. Presents the 1831 text along with five critical essays coming from five different critical perpectives. Each essay is accompanied by an introduction to the history, principles and practice of that critical perspective
Analysis English fiction
English fiction
Notes Spine title: Frankenstein
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein.
Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character)
Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Frankenstein (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Horror tales, English -- History and criticism.
Monsters in literature.
Monsters -- Fiction.
Scientists in literature.
Scientists -- Fiction.
Monsters -- Fiction.
Science fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author Smith, Johanna M.
LC no. 90063557
ISBN 0312044690 (paperback)
0312065256
0333575571