Frankenstein

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About This Volume

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PART ONE Frankenstein: The Complete Text in Cultural Context

Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts

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(16)

The Complete Text

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(171)

Contextual Documents

190

(47)

Things as They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794)

193

(4)

William Godwin

Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798)

197

(4)

Mary Wollstonecraft

[On Creation] (1531--1538)

201

(4)

Paracelsus

Emile, or On Education (1762)

205

(6)

Jean Jacques Rousseau

A Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802)

211

(11)

Humphry Davy

The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)

222

(2)

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari (1791)

224

(1)

Luigi Galvani

A Galvanized Corpse (1836)

224

(1)

Frankenstein's Laboratory (James Whale's Frankenstein, 1931)

225

(1)

The Creature and His Bride-to-Be (The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935)

225

(1)

The Creature Enchained (The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935)

226

(1)

Frankenstein and the Racialized Creature (The Model Man, 1850)

226

(1)

``The Brummagem Frankenstein'' (1866)

227

(1)

John Tenniel

``The Irish Frankenstein'' (1882)

228

(1)

John Tenniel

Charles Ogle as the Creature (Edison's Frankenstein, 1910)

229

(1)

Boris Karloff as the Creature (James Whale's Frankenstein, 1931)

230

(1)

Christopher Lee as the Creature (The Curse of Frankenstein, 1957)

231

(1)

Keith Jochim as the Creature (Victor Gialanella's Frankenstein)

232

(1)

The Creature Attacking His Maker (Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, 1994)

233

(4)

PART TWO Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism

A Critical History of Frankenstein

237

(25)

Psychoanalytic Criticism and Frankenstein

262

(34)

What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism?

262

(12)

Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography

274

(6)

A Psychoanalytic Perspective:

The Monster and the Maternal Thing: Mary Shelley's Critique of Ideology

280

(16)

David Collings

Feminist Criticism and Frankenstein

296

(38)

What Is Feminist Criticism?

296

(9)

Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography

305

(8)

A Feminist Perspective:

``Cooped Up'' with ``Sad Trash'': Domesticity and the Sciences in Frankenstein

313

(21)

Johanna M. Smith

Gender Criticism and Frankenstein

334

(34)

What Is Gender Criticism?

334

(11)

Gender Criticism: A Selected Bibliography

345

(4)

A Gender Perspective:

Lesbian Panic and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

349

(19)

Frann Michel

Marxist Criticism and Frankenstein

368

(28)

What Is Marxist Criticism?

368

(13)

Marxist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography

381

(3)

A Marxist Perspective:

The ``Workshop of Filthy Creation'': A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein

384

(12)

Warren Montag

Cultural Criticism and Frankenstein

396

(36)

What Is Cultural Criticism?

396

(14)

Cultural Criticism: A Selected Bibliography

410

(6)

A Cultural Perspective:

Frankenstein of the Nineties: The Composite Body

416

(16)

Bouriana Zakharieva

Combining Perspectives on Frankenstein

432

(18)

Reflections of Excess: Frankenstein, the French Revolution, and Monstrosity

435

(15)

Fred Botting

Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms

450

(19)

About the Contributors

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