Cover: Frankenstein, 3rd Edition by Mary Shelley; Edited by Johanna M. Smith

Frankenstein

Third Edition ©2016 Mary Shelley; Edited by Johanna M. Smith

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, Marxist,...

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ISBN:9780312463182

Cover: Frankenstein, 3rd Edition by Mary Shelley; Edited by Johanna M. Smith

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, Marxist, feminist, gender/queer, postcolonial, and cultural studies perspectives. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents, introductions (with bibliographies), and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.

In the third edition, three of the six essays are new, representing recent gender/queer, postcolonial, and cultural theories. The contextual documents have been significantly revised to include many images of Frankenstein from contemporary popular culture.

Features

• An authoritative text of Frankenstein (1831)
• Exemplary essays about Frankenstein representing contemporary critical approaches
• A rich selection of cultural contextual documents
• Highly praised editorial matter, including biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary

New to This Edition

• Three new critical essays representing recent gender/queer, postcolonial, and cultural theories
• Expanded collection of contextual documents and illustrations, including images of Frankenstein from contemporary popular culture
• Updated editorial apparatus

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Table of Contents

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

 

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Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley (August 30th, 1797-February 1st, 1851) is considered one of the greatest writers of her time. She is best known as the author of the classic gothic novel Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus.

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Johanna M. Smith

Johanna M. Smith is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she teaches drama, law and literature, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature.  She has published numerous articles in the latter fields, as well as a Twayne guide to Mary Shelley and a coedited anthology of eighteenth-century British womens life writings.  Her current research focus is British women in the public sphere from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century.