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Frankenstein: Complete, Authoritative Text With Biographical, Historical, and Cultural Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Contemporary Critical (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) - Hardcover
Synopsis
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.
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Contents
Contents:
About the Series
About this Volume
PART ONE: FRANKENSTEIN THE COMPLETE TEXT
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts
The Complete Text
PART TWO: FRANKENSTEIN: A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
A Critical History of Frankenstein
A Psychoanalytic Perspective: The Monster and the Imaginary Monster: A Lacanian Reading of Frankenstein; D. Collings
A Marxist Perspective: 'The Workshop of Filthy Creation': A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein; W. Montag
A Feminist Perspective: 'Cooped Up': Feminine Domesticity in Frankenstein; J. M. Smith
A Gender Critic's Perspective: Lesbian Panic and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; F. Michel
A Cultural Critic's Perspective: Frankenstein of the Nineties: The Composite Body; B. Zakharieva
Combining Perspectives: Reflections of Excess: Frankenstein, the French Revolution, and Monstrosity: F. Botting
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms
About the Author
JOHANNA M. SMITH is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0312227620
- ISBN 13 9780312227623
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages470
- EditorSmith Johanna M.
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