Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus. / (The 1818 text) Edited, with variant readings, an introd., and notes, by James Rieger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.

Series:

Library of literature

The Library of literature

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xlv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, [1974]

Summary:

Mary Shelley's deceptively simple story of Victor Frankenstein and the creature he brings to life, first published in 1818, is now more widely read--and more widely discussed by scholars--than any other work of the Romantic period. From the creature's creation to his wild lament over the dead body of his creator in the Arctic wastes, the story retains its narrative hold on the reader even as it spins off ideas in rich profusion.Macdonald and Scherf's edition of Frankenstein has been widely acclaimed as an outstanding edition of the novel--for the general reader and the student as much as for the scholar. The editors use as their copy-text the original 1818 version, and detail in an appendix all of Shelley's later revisions. They also include a range of contemporary documents that shed light on the historical context from which this unique masterpiece emerged. Macdonald and Scherf have now revised and updated their introduction, notes and bibliography, and have added new documents (including a review of Frankenstein by Percy Shelley).

Notes:

Bibliography: pages xxxix-xlii.

ISBN:

0672514575

0672610205

OCLC:

415598