Frankenstein: Third Edition (Broadview Editions) - Softcover

Mary Shelley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554811031 ISBN 13: 9781554811038

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2012

Synopsis

<p>Mary Shelleys deceptively simple story of Victor Frankenstein and the creature he brings to life, first published in 1818, is now more widely read than any other work of the Romantic period. From the creature s creation to his wild lament over the dead body of his creator in the Arctic wastes, the story retains its narrative hold on the reader even as it spins off ideas in rich profusion. </p> <p>New to this edition is a discussion of Percy Shelley s role in contributing to the first draft of the novel. Recent scholarship has clarified the degree to which Percy Shelley edited, modified, and added to Mary Shelley s original text, and this edition s note on the text discusses this scholarship, as well as the controversy over whether Percy Shelley should be considered a co-author of the work. </p

About this title

About the Author

The late D.L. Macdonald was Professor of English at the University of Calgary.
Kathleen Scherf is Professor of Communications at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia.
They co-edited the Broadview Editions of Mary Wollstonecraft's The Vindications, Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk, and John Polidori's The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold.

From the Back Cover

D.L. Macdonald and Kathleen 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.

New to this edition is a discussion of Percy Shelley's role in contributing to the first draft of the novel. Recent scholarship has provoked considerable interest in the degree to which Percy Shelley contributed to Mary Shelley's original text, and this edition's updated introduction discusses this scholarship. A new appendix also includes Lord Byron's "A Fragment" and John William Polidori's The Vampyre, works that are engaging in their own right and that also add further insights into the literary context of Frankenstein.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1554811031
• ISBN 13: 9781554811038
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 375
• Editor: D. L. MacDonald, Kathleen Scherf