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Title: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Contexts, Nineteenth-Century Responses, Modern Criticism (NORTON CRITICAL EDITIONS) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Paul J. Hunter, Mary Shelly, J. Paul Hunter ISBN: 0-393-96458-2 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.40 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not the horror story we all know and love so well.
Comment: Mary Shelley's early 1818 text of Frankenstein is free of the revisions she made when she became an older woman, wearier of the world. This novel is not the horror story Hollywood has told us in Boris Karloff's portrayal of the Frankenstein monster, Kenneth Brannaugh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (a disturbing departure from the text) and the satire Young Frankenstein. The horrors Shelley comments on in the book include the dangers of man playing God and then not taking responsibility for his creation by abandoning it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very thorough look at Mary Shelley's original work.
Comment: This Norton Critical Edition makes an excellent value in literature. If you are a student of literature, this volume will help you gain a thorough knowledge of Mary Shelley's original text (lots of context and critical essays included), as well as editions that followed. It contains her original preface (supposedly much influenced by Percy) as well as her 1830 preface. If you do not know, Mary's monster is not the monster one finds in the movies, nor is Dr. Frankenstein. Further, if you have not read an edition other than the first, you don't know about the incest issue that is in the first edition, but not later editions. As you will find in reviews below, this is not a flawless novel, but it is a must read for any well-read person. What is rarely discussed is the influence of John Locke, whose Essay Concerning Human Understanding Mary Shelley read closely just prior to writing the novel. The influence of his work on hers is substantial. Read in the light of Romanticism's reaction to the Enlightenment and Locke et al gives one a completely different perspective for understanding the work. I think you'll find Mary's philosophy appropriately and interestingly feminine, without being feminist; another surprise, considering her lineage. Definitely a good read!
Rating: 4
Summary: Frankenstein: A Norton Critical Edicition
Comment: This book is based on the original 1818 version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but is geared toward the reader who wants a more in-depth knowledge and understanding of this work of fiction and the writings of Mary Shelley, her husband Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and Dr. John William Polidori, Byron's friend. The reader will find abundant annotations which help to explain the context in which it was written. A map is provided which helps to locate many of the settings described in the book. It also includes a section of reactions to various versions that have been published. Twelve contemporary authors have submitted essays which supply a variety of perspectives on Frankenstein. The book offers an authoritative text, contextual and source materials, and a wide range of interpretations in addition to a bibliography of other works on the topics.
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Title: Dracula: Authoritative Text Contexts Reviews and Reactions Dramatic and Film Variations Criticism (Norton Critical Edition) by Bram Stoker, Nina Auerbach, David J. Skal ISBN: 0393970124 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.20 |
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Title: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ISBN: 0553212478 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 May, 1984 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Frankenstein (Cliffs Notes) by Jeff Coghill ISBN: 0764585932 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 19 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Routledge Literary Sourcebooks) by Timothy Morton ISBN: 0415227321 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Norton Critical Editions) by Robert Louis Stevenson, Katherine Linehan ISBN: 0393974650 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.25 |
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