Frankenstein Editions: 1818 in Oxford World's Classics Series

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text
By Mary Shelley
Edited with an introduction by Marilyn Butler
Oxford World's Classics
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Paperback ($8.95)
Published: 01 May 2009
328 Pages
ISBN: 9780199537150

Key features

• Based on the harder and wittier 1818 version of the text. 
• Draws on new research and examines the novel in the context of the controversial radical sciences developing in the years following the Napoleonic Wars. 
• Shows the relationship of Frankenstein's experiment to the contemporary debate between champions of materialistic science and proponents of received religion.

 

Description 

 

Shelley's enduringly popular and rich gothic tale, Frankenstein, confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism and science--topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and humankind's ability to act as creator of the modern world. This new edition, based on the harder and wittier 1818 version of the text, draws on new research and examines the novel in the context of the controversial radical sciences developing in the years following the Napoleonic Wars. In addition it shows the relationship of Frankenstein's experiment to the contemporary debate between champions of materialistic science and proponents of received religion.