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Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus, the 1818 text, Mary Shelley ; edited with introduction and notes by Marilyn Butler

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Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus, the 1818 text, Mary Shelley ; edited with introduction and notes by Marilyn Butler

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

310960078

Responsibility statement

Mary Shelley ; edited with introduction and notes by Marilyn Butler

Series statement

Oxford world's classics

Sub title

the 1818 text

Summary

Shelley's enduringly popular and rich gothic tale confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism and science, topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and humankind's ability to act as creator of the modern world. This new edition, based on the harder and wittier 1818 version of the text, draws on new research and examines the novel in the context of the controversial radical sciences developing in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, and shows the relationship of Frankenstein's experiment to the contemporary debate between champions of materialistic science and proponents of received religion

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Chronology -- Frankenstein -- Appendices. A. Author's introduction to the standard novels edition (1831) ; B. The third edition (1831): substantive changes ; C. The Quarterly review and radical science, 1819

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Modern Prometheus

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