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
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.
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