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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft - 1797–1851, English author; daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. In 1814 she fell in love with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, accompanied him abroad, and after the death of his first wife in 1816 was married to him. Her most notable contribution to literature is her novel of terror, Frankenstein, published in 1818. It is the story of a German

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Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus » Read Now
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. 192 pgs.

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The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley (Includes discussion of Frankenstein in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Esther Schor. 292 pgs.

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Well-known scholars review Mary Shelley's work in several contexts (literary history, aesthetic and literary culture, the legacies of her parents) and also analyze her most famous work-- Frankenstein. The contributors also examine Shelley as a biographer, cultural critic, and travel writer. The text...
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Well-known scholars review Mary Shelley's work in several contexts (literary history, aesthetic and literary culture, the legacies of her parents) and also analyze her most famous work-- Frankenstein. The contributors also examine Shelley as a biographer, cultural critic, and travel writer. The text is supplemented by a chronology, guide to further reading and select filmography.
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Women's Vision in Western Literature: The Empathic Community (Chap. Four "Sympathy for the Devil: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818)") » Read Now
by Laurence M. Porter. 258 pgs.

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Mary Shelley: Author of "Frankenstein" (Discussion of Frankenstein begins on p. 144) » Read Now
by Elizabeth Nitchie. 253 pgs.

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...portraits MARY SHELLEY AUTHOR OF "FRANKENSTEIN" Elizabeth Nitchie And Shelley...their copy of the first edition of Frankenstein ; the Keats House and Museum in...
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Hideous Progenies: Dramatizations of Frankenstein from Mary Shelley to the Present » Read Now
by Steven Earl Forry. 314 pgs.

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The Frankenstein Film Sourcebook » Read Now
by Jayne Blodgett, Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart, Frank Smoot. 351 pgs.

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The endurance of the Frankenstein narrative as a modern cinematic myth is undeniable. Its flexibility has produced classic and contemporary horror films--most notably the Universal films of the thirties--but it has also resulted in unusual hybrids, such as musical horror-comedy (The Rocky Horror...
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The endurance of the Frankenstein narrative as a modern cinematic myth is undeniable. Its flexibility has produced classic and contemporary horror films--most notably the Universal films of the thirties--but it has also resulted in unusual hybrids, such as musical horror-comedy (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), hyperbolic parody (Flesh for Frankenstein), and science fiction (the Alien and Terminator series). This sourcebook provides a complete guide to all of the story's filmic incarnations--including essential information such as cast, creative personnel, and plot summaries--and also guides the reader to relevant primary texts such as scripts, posters, production histories, and newspaper clippings. Utilizing an approach that is both popular and scholarly, and including spotlight essays that deal with contemporary academic approaches to the subject, The Frankenstein Film Sourcebook reveals the depth of the cinematic range of interpretations of a classic modern myth.
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Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic (Chap. 3 "Frankenstein's Progeny") » Read Now
by Linda Badley. 199 pgs.

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This fascinating study relates horror film to recent interpretations of the body and the self, drawing from feminist film theory, psychoanalytic theory, cultural criticism and gender studies. Applying the term "horror" broadly, this work includes discussions of black comedy, thrillers, science...
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This fascinating study relates horror film to recent interpretations of the body and the self, drawing from feminist film theory, psychoanalytic theory, cultural criticism and gender studies. Applying the term "horror" broadly, this work includes discussions of black comedy, thrillers, science fiction, and slasher films. Central to this book is the view of horror as a modern iconography and "discourse" of the body. Badley's thought-provoking analysis of films by directors Tim Burton, Tobe Hooper, George Romero, Ridley Scott, Brian De Palma, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Jonathan Demme, and Clive Barker, will be of interest to both scholars and students.
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Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature (Discussion of Frankenstein begins on p. 102) » Read Now
by Thomas Reed Whissen. 324 pgs.

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Classic Cult Fiction is a history, analysis, and reference guide to books that have become "bibles" to generations of Europeans and Americans over the past 200 years--books like The Catcher in the Rye. Fearlessly taking on "canon formation," Whissen identifies the top 50 classic cult books, first...
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Classic Cult Fiction is a history, analysis, and reference guide to books that have become "bibles" to generations of Europeans and Americans over the past 200 years--books like The Catcher in the Rye. Fearlessly taking on "canon formation," Whissen identifies the top 50 classic cult books, first presenting an informed and witty interpretation of the phenomenon and its characteristics with examples from different cultures and periods. The individual works are each discussed relative to time and place, impact, and audience psychology and analyzed in terms of common cult attributes. A chronological listing of cult fiction adds a number of titles not chosen for the top 50.
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Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Chap. 2 "Making Monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein") » Read Now
by Judith Halberstam. 222 pgs.

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Frankenstein and the Reprobate's Conscience, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by Jane Goodall. 25 pgs.

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Frankenstein and the Spark of Being, in History Today » Read Now
by J. V. Field, Frank A. J. L. James. 7 pgs.

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Haunted Presence: The Numinous in Gothic Fiction (Chap. 4 "Frankenstein") » Read Now
by S. L. Varnado. 160 pgs.

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Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population, and the Discourse of the Species (Chap. 3 "Literate Species: Populations, 'Humanities,' and the Specific Failure of Literature in Frankenstein") » Read Now
by Maureen N. McLane . 282 pgs.

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This innovative study examines the dialogue between British Romantic poetry and the human sciences of the period. Maureen McLane reveals how Romantic writers participated in a new-found consciousness of human beings as a species, engaging with major discourses on moral philosophy, political economy...
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This innovative study examines the dialogue between British Romantic poetry and the human sciences of the period. Maureen McLane reveals how Romantic writers participated in a new-found consciousness of human beings as a species, engaging with major discourses on moral philosophy, political economy and anthropology by preeminent theorists such as Malthus, Godwin and Burke. The book provides original readings of canonical works, including Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Percy Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, and has much to say about the place of Romantic poetry within its culture.
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