Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook,9780415227322

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

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ISBN13: 9780415227322
ISBN10: 0415227321
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Pub. Date: 2002-09-20
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

One of the most terrifying and sublime novels of the Romantic period, Frankensteinhas remained an indelible creation, appearing in everything from B-movies to erotica. This sourcebook examines Mary Shelley's novel within its literary and cultural contexts, exploring the contexts from which Frankensteinemerged, the early reception of the novel, adaptation and performance of the work and recent criticism on it. The text also includes carefully annotated key passages from the novel and concludes with a list of recommended editions and further reading, to allow readers to pursue the areas of study that intrigue them.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
xi
Series Editor's Preface xii
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1(6)
Contexts
Contextual Overview
7(4)
Further Reading
10(1)
Chronology
11(6)
Contemporary Documents
17(20)
Introduction
17(1)
An Enquiry into the Probability and Rationality of Mr. Hunter's Theory of Life: Being the Subject of the First Two Anatomical Lectures Delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, of London (1814)
17(3)
John Abernethy
An Introduction to Comparative Anatomy and Physiology; Being the Two Introductory Lectures Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons, on the 21st and 25th of March, 1816 (1816)
20(3)
William Lawrence
Quarterly Review (1820)
23(1)
The Last Man. By the Author of Frankenstein (1826)
24(2)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Journals of Mary Shelley (1814--44)
26(2)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
28(2)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Letters Written in Geneva (1817)
30(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Further Reading
32(5)
Interpretations
Presumption, Science and Religion: Early Receptions of Frankenstein
37(8)
Introduction
37(1)
Reviews
37(1)
Anon., `The Belle Assemblee, or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine' (March 1818)
37(1)
Anon., Review of Presumption; or The Fate of Frankenstein (Richard Brinsley Peake's adaptation), the London Morning Post (1823)
38(2)
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
40(2)
Sir Walter Scott
`On ``Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus''' (1818)
42(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Further Reading
44(1)
Why Did You Make Me Like This?! Performing Frankenstein
45(35)
Introduction
45(2)
Frankenphemes
47(1)
Presumption: Or the Fate of Frankenstein
48(7)
Richard Brinsley Peake
`This New Promethean Fire: Radioactive Monsters and Sustainable Nuclear Futures'
55(3)
Kathleen Sullivan
Adaptations and Hybrids
58(1)
Translations
58(1)
Frankensteinian fictions
59(1)
Frankensteinian erotica
59(1)
Theatrical adaptations
59(5)
Film adaptations
64(1)
Early films: genesis of a genre
64(2)
Revisions and multiple-monster films
66(5)
The Hammer films
71(1)
Comedy
71(2)
Films exploring sexuality
73(1)
Cybernetics, doppelgangers, genetic engineering and replicants
74(2)
Politics, race and class
76(1)
Biographical and historical films
76(1)
Other films
77(1)
Television adaptations
78(1)
Frankenstein in music
79(1)
Multimedia and interactive
79(1)
Other media
79(1)
Modern Criticism
80(49)
Introduction
80(2)
The Body, Medicine and Science
82(1)
`The Shelleys and Radical Science' (1994)
82(3)
Marilyn Butler
Murdering to Dissect: Graverobbing, Frankenstein, and the Anatomy Literature (1995)
85(4)
Tim Marshall
`The Monstrous Body of Knowledge in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein' (1995)
89(1)
Alan Rauch
`Frankenstein: The Mother, the Daughter, and the Monster' (1991)
89(1)
Paul Youngquist
Commodity Culture and Social Structure
90(1)
`Production Replaces Creation: Market Forces and Frankenstein as Critique of Romanticism' (1988)
90(1)
Elsie B. Michie
Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms (1983)
90(2)
Franco Moretti
Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 1780--1832 (1994)
92(4)
Alan Richardson
Gender and Queer Theories
96(1)
`In the Romantic Tradition: Frankenstein and The Rocky Horror Picture Show' (1987)
96(3)
Rolf Eichler
`Is There a Woman in This Text?' (1982)
99(3)
Mary Jacobus
`Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Spectacle of Masculinity' (1993)
102(1)
Bette London
Between Men: English Literature and Homosocial Desire (1985)
103(1)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Genre, Literary Form and Literary History
104(1)
`Parenting Frankenstein' (1996)
104(1)
Zachary Leader
The Surprising Effects of Sympathy: Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley (1988)
105(1)
David Marshall
`Frankenstein's Ghost Story: The Last Jacobin Novel' (1986)
105(3)
Michael Scrivener
Language and Psyche
108(1)
`Godlike Science/Unhallowed Arts: Language and Monstrosity in Frankenstein' (1978)
108(1)
Peter Brooks
`Periphrastic Naming in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein' (1995)
108(1)
Bernard Duyfhuizen
`My Monster/My Self' (1987)
109(3)
Barbara Johnson
`Filthy Types: Frankenstein, Figuration, Femininity' (1996)
112(1)
Steven Vine
Race, Colonialism and Orientalism
112(1)
`Standards of Taste, Discourses of ``Race'', and the Aesthetic Education of a Monster: Critique of Empire in Frankenstein' (1994)
112(1)
Elizabeth A. Bohls
`Frankenstein's Monster and Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain' (1993)
113(3)
H.L. Malchow
Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: the Body and the Natural World (1994)
116(5)
Timothy Morton
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a Theory of the Vanishing Present (1999)
121(6)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Key Passages
Introduction
127(2)
Key Passages of Frankenstein
129(54)
Further Reading
Recommended Editions
177(1)
Further Reading
177(6)
Directory of Figures 183(8)
Index 191

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