Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 443 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Dictionary of literary biography ; volume 385 |
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Dictionary of literary biography complete online |
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 385
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Contents |
Inspirations and sources : Mythic and religious texts ; Enlightenment thought and romanticism ; The works of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin ; The rise of new science ; Travels and tragedy ; The poetry of Frankenstein ; The stories of Fantasmagoriana -- Bringing Frankenstein to life: composition, publication, and reception : The stories of a beginning ; Writing and publishing the novel ; The responses to Frankenstein ; The second edition ; The third edition -- "In the neighbourhood of man": the fate of Frankenstein in the culture : The creature's stage debut ; The response to Presumption ; Other stage adaptations of the 1820s ; The legacy of a "peculiar place" ; "The ancestor of a numerous family" ; Frankenstein goes to the movies: the early twentieth century ; The continuing presence of Frankenstein -- Selected criticism |
Summary |
This volume describes the novel and its creation, and the cultural evolution of the Frankenstein story |
Notes |
"A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book." |
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"ISSN: 1096-8547" |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on print version record |
Subject |
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein.
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SUBJECT |
Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01357605 |
Subject |
Science fiction, English -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Science fiction, English.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Harris-Fain, Darren, editor.
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ISBN |
1414462581 |
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9781414462585 |
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