Frankenstein (by Mary Shelley)

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 Read More...

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

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Preface

Introduction (to the 1831 Edition)

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Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24
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The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley (Includes discussion of Frankenstein in multiple chapters)
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 is supplemented by a chronology, guide to further reading and select filmography.

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Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Chronology

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Introduction

1: [The Author of Frankenstein]

1: Makinga “monster”: an Introduction to Frankenstein

Notes

2: Frankenstein Matilda, and the Legacies of Godwin and Wollstonecraft

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3: Frankenstein, Feminism, and Literary Theory

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4: Frankenstein and Film

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5: Frankenstein's Futurity: Replicants and Robots

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2: Fictions and Myths

6: Valperga

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7: The Last Man

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8: Historical Novelist

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9: Falkner and Other Fictions

10: Stories for the Keepsake

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11: Proserpine and Midas

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3: Professional Personae

12: Mary Shelley, Editor

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13: Mary Shelley's Letters: the Public/Private Self

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14: Biographer

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15: Travel Writing

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16: Mary Shelley as Cultural Critic

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Further Reading

Select Filmography

Index

Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Women's Vision in Western Literature: The Empathic Community (Chap. Four "Sympathy for the Devil: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818)")
by Laurence M. Porter. 258 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Competitive and Cooperative Styles in Literature

1: Make Love, Not War

2: The Situation Ethics of Marie de France

3: Styling a European Union

4: Sympathy for the Devil

5: Communion and Coercion in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway

6: The Peaceable Empire

7: Christa Wolf, Citizen of the World

Conclusion: The Empathic Vision

Notes

Bibliography

Index
4.

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

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Introduction

Chapter 1: The Self-Examiner

Chapter 2: An Adverting Mind

Chapter 3: Activity of Remembrance

Chapter 4: The Godwins of Skinner Street

Chapter 5: Albe and the Pirate

Chapter 6: Friends, Foes, and Family

Chapter 7: The Author: Eager Aspirant

Chapter 8: The Author: No Idle Activity

Chapter 9: The Keepsake Of Mary Shelley

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Bibliography

Index
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Hideous Progenies: Dramatizations of Frankenstein from Mary Shelley to the Present
by Steven Earl Forry. 314 pgs.

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Preface

Notes

Acknowledgments

Part I Historical Introduction

1: Melodrama and Burlesque: 1823 to 1826

2: Frankenstein Amid the Populace: Victorian Renderings of Shelley's Novel, 1832 -1900

3: Reviving Frankenstein in the Twentieth Century: Drama and Cinema, 1900-1930

4: Afterword and List of Plays, 1821-1986

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Richard Brinsley Peake Presumption; Or, the Fate of Frankenstein (1823)

Richard Brinsley Peake Presumption; Or, the Fate of Frankenstein (1823)

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Richard Brinsley Peake Another Piece of Presumption (1823)

Scene 2nd Antechamber in the House of Frakinstitch.

Act 2nd Scene 1st a Room in Frankinstitch's House Mrs. Frankinstitch Discovered

Frank-In-Steam; Or, the Modern Promise to Pay (1824)

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Frankenstein; Or, the Man and the Monster (1826)

Frankenstein; Or, the Man and the Monster (1826)

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The Monster and Magician; Or, the Fate of Frankeinstein: (1826)

The Monster and Magician; Or, the Fate of Frankeinstein: (1826)

Scene the Second.--Lodge in the Castle of Frankenstein.

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Richard and Barnabas Brough Frankenstein; Or, the Model Man (1849)

Scene the Second.--Lodge in the Castle of Frankenstein.

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Frankenstein (1930)

Frankenstein (1930)

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Appendix Music from Vampire's Victim: (1887)

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The Frankenstein Film Sourcebook
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 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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Foreword

Introduction

A Note on the Entries

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Appendix One

Appendix Two

Appendix Three

Index to Essays

Alphabetical Index of Films
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Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic (Chap. 3 "Frankenstein's Progeny")
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 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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Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Body Fantastic

Chapter 2: Spectral Effects: Postmodern Ghosts

Chapter 3: Frankenstein's Progeny

Chapter 4: Deconstructions of the Gaze

Chapter 5: David Cronenberg's Anatomy Lessons

Chapter 6: Looking for the Mother in The Silence of the Lambs

Afferword

Notes

Bibliography

Filmography

Index

About the Author
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Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature (Discussion of Frankenstein begins on p. 102)
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 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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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Cult Classics

Against Nature (A Rebours)

Animal Farm

Another Roadside Attraction

Axel

Been Down So Long It Looks like Up to Me

The Bell Jar

Brave New World

A Canticle for Leibowitz

The Catcher in the Rye

Catch-22

A Clockwork Orange

The Day of the Locust

Demian

Dune

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The Fountainhead

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

The Great Gatsby

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Killer Inside Me

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lolita

Look Homeward, Angel

Lord of the Flies

The Lord of the Rings

Lost Horizon

Lucky Jim

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

On the Road

The Outsider

The Outsiders

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

René

A Separate Peace

Siddhartha

Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death

The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden Des Jungen Werthers)

The Stand

Steppenwolf

The Stranger

Stranger in a Strange Land

The Sun Also Rises

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

This Side of Paradise

Time and Again

Trout Fishing in America

2001: A Space Odyssey

Walden Two

Warlock

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Chronological Listing of Cult Fiction

Works Cited

Bibliography of Primary Works: First and Current Editions

Books for Further Reading

Index

About the Author
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Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Chap. 2 "Making Monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein")
by Judith Halberstam. 222 pgs.

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1: Parasites and Perverts: an Introduction to Gothic Monstrosity

2: Making Monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

3: Gothic Surface, Gothic Depth: the Subject of Secrecy in Stevenson and Wilde

Conclusion

4: Technologies of Monstrosity: Bram Stoker's Dracula

5: Reading Counterclockwise: Paranoid Gothic or Gothic Paranoia?

Conclusion

6: Bodies That Splatter: Queers and Chain Saws

7: Skinflick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme's the Silence of the Lambs

8: Conclusion: Serial Killing

Notes

Bibliography

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

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Frankenstein and the Spark of Being, in History Today
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")
by S. L. Varnado. 160 pgs.

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Haunted Presence: The Numinous in Gothic Fiction

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Acknowledgments

1: The Literature of the Supernatural

2: The Numinous

3: The Gothic Novel

4: Frankenstein

5: Poe and Initiation into the Sacred

6: The Numinous Aesthetic of Henry James

7: The Daemonic in Dracula

8: The Modern Period

9: Analyzing the Mysterium Tremendum

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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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")
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 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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Acknowledgments

Introduction, or the Thing at Hand

Chapter 1: Toward an Anthropologic: Poetry, Literature, and the Discourse of the Species

Chapter 2: Do Rustics Think?: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Problem of a “human Diction”

Chapter 3: Literate Species: Populations, “humanities, ” and the Specific Failure of Literature in Frankenstein

Chapter 4: The “arithmetic of Futurity”: Poetry, Population, and the Structure of the Future

Chapter 5: Dead Poets and Other Romantic Populations: Immortality and Its Discontents

Epilogue: Immortality Interminable: the Use of Poetry for Life

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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