LIT 3212 - Frankenstein (Philpotts)

An annotated and illustrated edition of Mary Shelley's classic work, celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2018.

The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects.

The best-selling student edition on the market, now available in a Second Edition.

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.

These two versions of the classic novel including an original draft as first written by Mary Shelley and a subsequent version that incorporated Percy Shelley's amendments and contributions, is a volume that offers insight into Mary's colloquial and modern style and Percy's contrasting prose that served to humanize the monster.

This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text of Mary Shelley's English Romantic novel along with critical essays that introduce students to Frankenstein from contemporary psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, gender, and cultural studies perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how various critical perspectives can be combined. In this second edition, three of the six essays are new.

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.