Bibliograph

Frankenstein, complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives, Mary Shelley ; edited by Johanna M. Smith

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Frankenstein, complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives, Mary Shelley ; edited by Johanna M. Smith

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Frankenstein

Oclc number

44002150

Responsibility statement

Mary Shelley ; edited by Johanna M. Smith

Series statement

Case studies in contemporary criticism

Sub title

complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives

Table Of Contents

Frankenstein: The Complete Text in Cultural Context -- Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts -- Contextual Documents -- from Things as They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) / William Godwin -- from Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798) / Mary Wollstonecraft -- [On Creation] (1531-1538) / Paracelsus -- from Emile, or On Education (1762) / Jean Jacques Rousseau -- A Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802) / Humphry Davy -- from The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) / Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe -- from De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari (1791) / Luigi Galvani -- A Galvanized Corpse (1836) -- Frankenstein's Laboratory (James Whale's Frankenstein, 1931) -- The Creature and His Bride-to-Be (The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935) -- The Creature Enchained (The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935) -- Frankenstein and the Racialized Creature (The Model Man, 1850) -- "The Brummagem Frankenstein" (1866) / John Tenniel -- "The Irish Frankenstein" (1882) / John Tenniel -- Charles Ogle as the Creature (Edison's Frankenstein, 1910) -- Boris Karloff as the Creature (James Whale's Frankenstein, 1931) -- Christopher Lee as the Creature (The Curse of Frankenstein, 1957) -- Keith Jochim as the Creature (Victor Gialanella's Frankenstein, 1981) -- The Creature Attacking His Maker (Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, 1994) -- Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism -- A Critical History of Frankenstein -- Psychoanalytic Criticism and Frankenstein -- What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism? -- Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography -- A Psychoanalytic Perspective -- The Monster and the Maternal Thing: Mary Shelley's Critique of Ideology / David Collings -- Feminist Criticism and Frankenstein -- What Is Feminist Criticism? -- Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography -- A Feminist Perspective -- "Cooped Up" with "Sad Trash": Domesticity and the Sciences in Frankenstein / Johanna M. Smith -- Gender Criticism and Frankenstein -- What Is Gender Criticism? -- Gender Criticism: A Selected Bibliography -- A Gender Perspective -- Lesbian Panic and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Frann Michel -- Marxist Criticism and Frankenstein -- What Is Marxist Criticism? -- Marxist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography -- A Marxist Perspective -- 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 Perspective -- Frankenstein of the Nineties: The Composite Body / Bouriana Zakharieva -- Combining Perspectives on Frankenstein -- Reflections of Excess: Frankenstein, the French Revolution, and Monstrosity / Fred Botting

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