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Combining critical essays, contextual documents, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms with the original 1831 text, Frankenstein is supported by additional resources which help you think critically about the iconic text.
Frankenstein (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
by Shelley, Mary; Smith, Johanna M.Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2015-11-20
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary
Table of Contents
Part One Frankenstein: The Complete Text in Cultural Context
Biographical and Historical Contexts
The Complete Text
Part Two Frankenstein in Cultural Context
Part Three Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
A Critical History of Frankenstein
Psychoanalytic Criticism and Frankenstein
David Collings, “The Monster and the Maternal Thing: Mary Shelley’s Critique of Ideology”
Feminist Criticism and Frankenstein
Johanna M. Smith, “’Cooped Up” with “Sad Trash”: Domesticity and the Sciences in Frankenstein”
Marxist Criticism and Frankenstein
Warren Montag, “’The Workshop of Filthy Creation’: A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein”
Gender Criticism/Queer Theory and Frankenstein
New Grant F. Scott, “Victor’s Secret: Queer Gothic in Lynd Ward’s Illustrations to Frankenstein (1934)”
Cultural Criticism and Frankenstein
New Siobhan Carroll, “Crusades Against Frost: Frankenstein, Polar Ice, and Climate Change in 1818”
Postcolonial Criticism and Frankenstein
New Allan Lloyd Smith, “’This Thing of Darkness’: Racial Discourse in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms
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