Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

The Text of Frankenstein
map: Geneva and Its Environs
Title page (1818)
Dedication (1818)
Preface
Frankenstein

Contexts
CIRCUMSTANCE, INFLUENCE, COMPOSITION, REVISION

Mary Shelley • Introduction to Frankenstein, Third Edition (1831)
John William Polidori • Letter Prefaced to The Vampyre (1819)
M. K. Joseph • The Composition of Frankenstein
Chris Baldick • [Assembling Frankenstein]
Richard Holmes • [Mary Shelley and the Power of Contemporary Science]
Christa Knellwolf and Jane Goodall • [The Significance of Place: Ingolstadt]
Charles E. Robinson • Texts in Search of an Editor: Reflections on The Frankenstein Notebooks and on Editorial Authority
Anne K. Mellor • Choosing a Text of Frankenstein to Teach

RECEPTION, IMPACT, ADAPTATION

Percy Bysshe Shelley • On Frankenstein
[John Croker] • From the Quarterly Review (January 1818)
Sir Walter Scott • From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (March 1818)
Edinburgh Magazine • [On Frankenstein] (March 1818)
Gentleman's Magazine • [On Frankenstein] (April 1818)
Knight's Quarterly • [On Frankenstein] (August-November 1824)
Hugh Reginald Haweis • Introduction to the Routledge World Library Edition (1886)
Chris Baldick • [The Reception of Frankenstein]
William St. Clair • [Frankenstein's Impact]
Susan Tyler Hitchcock • [The Monster Lives On]
Elizabeth Young • [Frankenstein as Historical Metaphor]
David Pirie • Approaches to Frankenstein [in Film]

SOURCES, INFLUENCES, ANALOGUES

The Book of Genesis • [Biblical Account of Creation]
John Milton • From Paradise Lost
Percy Bysshe Shelley • Mont Blanc (1816)
[The Sea of Ice] (1817)
Mutability
George Gordon, Lord Byron • Prometheus
Darkness
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816)
Charles Lamb • The Old Familiar Faces

Criticism
George Levine • Frankenstein and the Tradition of Realism
Ellen Moers • Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar • Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve
Mary Poovey • "My Hideous Progeny": The Lady and the Monster
Anne K. Mellor • Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein
Peter Brooks • What Is a Monster? (According to Frankenstein)
Bette London • Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Spectacle of Masculinity
Marilyn Butler • Frankenstein and Radical Science
Lawrence Lipking • Frankenstein, the True Story; or, Rousseau Judges Jean-Jacques
Garrett Stewart • In the Absence of Audience: Of Reading and Dread in Mary Shelley
James A. W. Heffernan • Looking at the Monster: Frankenstein and Film
Patrick Brantlinger • The Reading Monster
Jonathan Bate • [Frankenstein and the State of Nature]
Anne K. Mellor • Frankenstein, Racial Science, and the Yellow Peril
Jane Goodall • Electrical Romanticism
Christa Knellwolf • Geographic Boundaries and Inner Space: Frankenstein, Scientific Exploration, and the Quest for the Absolute
Mary Shelley: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography

About the Author

J. Paul Hunter is Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Reluctant Pilgrim: Defoe’s Emblematic Method and Quest for Form in Robinson Crusoe; Occasional Form: Henry Fielding and the Chains of Circumstance; and Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction. He is author of the first nine editions of The Norton Introduction to Poetry and the long-time co-editor of The Norton Introduction to Literature and New Worlds of Literature.