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Frankenstein : the 1818 edition with related texts / Mary Shelley ; edited, with introduction and notes, by David Wootton.

By: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 [author.]Contributor(s): Wootton, David, 1952- [editor.]Series: Hackett classicsDescription: xlvii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN: 9781624669125; 1624669123; 9781624669132; 1624669131Subject(s): Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein | Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) | Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character) | Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft) | Scientists -- Fiction | Monsters -- Fiction | Monsters | ScientistsGenre/Form: Fiction. | Horror fiction. | Science fiction. | Fiction.DDC classification: 823/.7 LOC classification: PR5397 | .F7 2020
Contents:
Frankenstein: the 1818 edition -- Related texts: 1. Frankenstein: the introduction to the 1831 edition -- 2. Percy Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock, from Mary W. Shelley and Percy B. Shelley, A History of a six Wkkes' Tour (1818) -- 3. Polidori's diary for the period he was in contact with Mary Godwin/Shelley -- 4. "Prometheus," from Edward Baldwin [i.e., William Godwin], The Pantheon (1806) -- 5. Humphry Davy, "Historical View of the Progress of Chemistry" from Elements of Chemical Philosophy (1812) -- 6. From Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature (1803) -- 7. From Giovanni Aldini, An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism (1803) -- 8. From John Abernethy, An Enquiry into the Probability and Rationality of Mr. Hunter's Theory of Life (1814) -- 9. William Lawrence, "on Life," from An Introduction to Comparative Anatomy and Physiology (1816) -- 10. From John Barrow, "Lord Selkirk and the North-west Company," in the Quarterly Review, Volume 16, Number 31 (October 1816) -- 11. The reviews.
Summary: "This will be an edition of the 1818 text of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. An Introduction by David Wootton, with edited related texts and notes, makes this volume accessible and useful for undergraduate readers, as well as general-interest audiences"--
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Frankenstein: the 1818 edition -- Related texts: 1. Frankenstein: the introduction to the 1831 edition -- 2. Percy Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock, from Mary W. Shelley and Percy B. Shelley, A History of a six Wkkes' Tour (1818) -- 3. Polidori's diary for the period he was in contact with Mary Godwin/Shelley -- 4. "Prometheus," from Edward Baldwin [i.e., William Godwin], The Pantheon (1806) -- 5. Humphry Davy, "Historical View of the Progress of Chemistry" from Elements of Chemical Philosophy (1812) -- 6. From Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature (1803) -- 7. From Giovanni Aldini, An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism (1803) -- 8. From John Abernethy, An Enquiry into the Probability and Rationality of Mr. Hunter's Theory of Life (1814) -- 9. William Lawrence, "on Life," from An Introduction to Comparative Anatomy and Physiology (1816) -- 10. From John Barrow, "Lord Selkirk and the North-west Company," in the Quarterly Review, Volume 16, Number 31 (October 1816) -- 11. The reviews.

"This will be an edition of the 1818 text of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. An Introduction by David Wootton, with edited related texts and notes, makes this volume accessible and useful for undergraduate readers, as well as general-interest audiences"--