Frankenstein

ThisNortonCriticalEditionofMaryShelley'sgothicmasterpieceisbasedonthe1818firsteditiontext,publishedinthreevolumesbyLackington,Hughes,Harding,Mayor,andJones.Throughout,theeditorprovidesusefulexplanatoryannotation.Amapoftheregionhelpsreaderslocatethenovel'smanysettings.In"CompositionandRevision,"aspecialcriticalsection,M.K.JosephandAnneK.Melloraddresstheissuessurroundingteachers'choiceoftext.Contemporaryperspectiveisprovidedintwosupportingsections."Contexts"includesrelatedwritingsbyMaryShelley,PercyByssheShelley,LordByron,andJohnWilliamPolidori."Nineteenth-CenturyResponses"gatherssixreactionstoFrankenstein'spublicationfromtheyears1818to1886,includingthosebyPercyByssheShelleyandHughtleginaldHaweis."Criticism"isacollectionoftwelveseminalessaysthatprovideavarietyofperspectivesonFrankensteinbyChristopherSmall,GeorgeLevine,EllenMoers,SandraM.GilbertandSusanGubar,BarbaraJohnson,MaryPoovey,GayatriChakravortySpivak,WilliamVeeder,AnneK.Mellor,SusanWinnett,MarilynButler,andLawrenceLipking.AChronologyandSelectedBibliographyarealsoincluded.作者简介：J.PAULHUNTERisBarbaraE.andRichardJ.FrankeProfessorofEnglishLanguageandLiteratureattheUniversityofChicago,wherehehastaughtsince1987.HeistheauthorofTheReluctantPilgrim:Defoe'sEmblematicMethodandQuestforForminRobinsonCrusoe;OccasionalForm:HenryFieldingandtheChainsofCircumstance;andBeforeNovels:TheCulturalContextsofEighteenth-CenturyEnglishFiction.HeiseditorofTheNortonIntroductiontoPoetryandco-editorofTheNortonIntroductiontoLiteratureandNewWorldsofLiterature.