Frankenstein

Third Edition

Publication Date: April 06, 2016

Paperback ISBN: 9780312463182

Pages: 608

A long-awaited revision of the bestselling Case Study in Contemporary Criticism: Frankenstein

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,...

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ISBN: 9780312463182
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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