Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1797-1851 (Author). Wolfson, Susan J., 1948- (Added Author).

Summary: In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.

Record details

ISBN: 9780321399533
ISBN: 0321399536 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xxxii, 431 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Edition: 2nd ed. /
Publisher: New York : Pearson Longman, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-431).

Formatted Contents Note:

Frankenstein; or, the modern Prometheus (1818) -- from Frankenstein : or, the modern Prometheus (1831) -- Monsters, visionaries, and Mary Shelley -- Edmund Burke on "the sublime and the beautiful" -- Mary Wollstonecraft on Burke's genderings -- William Gilpin on "the picturesque" -- from The rime of the ancyent marinere (1798) / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- from The wrongs of woman; or Maria : Jemima's story / Mary Wollstonecraft -- Mary Godwin (Shelley), from her journal of 1815 : the death of her first baby -- from Alastor; or, the spirit of solitude / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- from History of a six weeks' tour : alpine scenery / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Mont Blanc / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- from Manfred, a dramatic poem / George Gordon / Lord Byron -- from Childe Harold's pilgrimage, canto the third : alpine thunderstorm / George Gordon / Lord Byron -- from Blue-stocking revels, or the feast of the violets / Leigh Hunt -- from Baby and child care / Benjamin Spock -- fragment / George Gordon / Lord Byron -- vampyre / John William Polidori -- Genesis : chapters 2 and 3 (King James Bible) -- from Paradise lost / John Milton -- from Political justice / William Godwin -- Prometheus / George Gordon / Lord Byron -- Remarks on Satan, from Lectures on the English poets / William Hazlitt -- from Prometheus unbound / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- from A defence of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Richard Brinsley Peake, Frankenstein, a romantic drama in three acts (1823) -- Review and relations -- [John Wilson Croker], Quarterly Review, January 1818 -- [Walter Scott], Blackwood's Edingburgh Magazine, March 1818 -- (Scots) Edinburgh Magazine and literary miscellany, March 1818 -- Belle Assemblee, March 1818 -- British Critic, April 1818 -- Gentleman's Magazine, April 1818 -- Monthly Review, April 1818 -- Literary Panorama, June 1818 -- Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1823 -- London Morning Post, reviews of Peake's Frankenstein, July 1823 -- George Canning, remarks in Parliament, March 1824 -- Knight's Quarterly Magazine, August 1824 -- London Literary Gazette, November 1831 -- [Percy Bysshe Shelley, posthumous], Anthenaeum, November 1832 -- Frankentalk : Frankenstein in the popular press of today.