Frankenstein
Third Edition| ©2016 Mary Shelley; Edited by Johanna M. Smith
Revised to reflect critical trends of the past 15 years, the third iteration of this widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text of Mary Shelley’s English Romantic novel along with critical essays that introduce students to Frankenstein from contemporary psychoanalytic, Marxist,...
Revised to reflect critical trends of the past 15 years, the third iteration of this widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text of Mary Shelley’s English Romantic novel along with critical essays that introduce students to Frankenstein from contemporary psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, gender/queer, postcolonial, and cultural studies perspectives. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents, introductions (with bibliographies), and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.
In the third edition, three of the six essays are new, representing recent gender/queer, postcolonial, and cultural theories. The contextual documents have been significantly revised to include many images of Frankenstein from contemporary popular culture.
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Revised to reflect critical trends of the past 15 years, the third iteration of this widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text of Mary Shelley’s English Romantic novel along with critical essays that introduce students to Frankenstein from contemporary psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, gender/queer, postcolonial, and cultural studies perspectives. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents, introductions (with bibliographies), and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.
In the third edition, three of the six essays are new, representing recent gender/queer, postcolonial, and cultural theories. The contextual documents have been significantly revised to include many images of Frankenstein from contemporary popular culture.
Features
• Exemplary essays about Frankenstein representing contemporary critical approaches
• A rich selection of cultural contextual documents
• Highly praised editorial matter, including biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary
New to This Edition
• Three new critical essays representing recent gender/queer, postcolonial, and cultural theories• Expanded collection of contextual documents and illustrations, including images of Frankenstein from contemporary popular culture
• Updated editorial apparatus
Frankenstein
Third Edition| ©2016
Mary Shelley; Edited by Johanna M. Smith
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Frankenstein
Third Edition| 2016
Mary Shelley; Edited by Johanna M. Smith
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
Johanna M. Smith
Frankenstein
Third Edition| 2016
Mary Shelley; Edited by Johanna M. Smith
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