Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Shelley, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199537151 ISBN 13: 9780199537150

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Shelley's enduringly popular and rich gothic tale, Frankenstein, 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. In addition it shows the relationship of Frankenstein's experiment to the contemporary debate between champions of materialistic science and proponents of received religion.

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About the Author

Marilyn Butler is King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at King's College, Cambridge. She is the author of Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries (1981) and co-editor of Pickering's Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (1989). She has also edited Mary Shelley's The last Man, published in World's Classics in 1994. .

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199537151
• ISBN 13: 9780199537150
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Butler Marilyn