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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.

Contributor:

Butler, Marilyn.

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Standardized Title:

Frankenstein

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frankenstein (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Frankenstein (Fictitious character).

Scientists--Fiction.

Scientists.

Monsters--Fiction.

Monsters.

Genre:

Fiction.

Science fiction.

Horror fiction.

Physical Description:

lxi, 261 pages ; 20 cm.

Other Title:

Modern Prometheus

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Summary:

Frankenstein was Mary Shelley's immensely powerful contribution to the ghost stories which she, Percy Shelley, and Byron devised one wet summer in Switzerland. Its protagonist is a young student of natural philosophy, who learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constructed from relics of the dead, with horrific consequences. Frankenstein confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism: topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and mankind's status as a species of animal. The text used here is from the 1818 edition, which is a mocking expose of leaders and achievers who leave desolation in their wake, showing humanity its choice - to live co-operatively or to die of selfishness. It is also a black comedy, and harder and wittier than the 1831 version with which we are more familiar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page [liv]-lviii).

ISBN:

0192833669

OCLC:

40135623