Frankenstein (Case Study in Contemporary Criticism)
Third Edition ©2016
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By Mary Shelley , edited by Johanna M. Smith (University of Texas at Arlington)
ISBN-10: 0-312-46318-9; ISBN-13: 978-0-312-46318-2; Format: Paper Text, 608 pages
A long-awaited revision of the bestselling Case Study in Contemporary Criticism: Frankenstein
Revised to reflect critical trends of the past 15 years, the third iteration of this 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/queer, postcolonial, and cultural studies perspectives. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents, introductions (with bibliographies), and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.
In the third edition, three of the six essays are new, representing recent gender/queer, postcolonial, and cultural theories. The contextual documents have been significantly revised to include many images of
Frankenstein from contemporary popular culture.
Features:
- An authoritative text of Frankenstein (1831)
- Exemplary essays about Frankenstein representing contemporary critical approaches
- A rich selection of cultural contextual documents
- Highly praised editorial matter, including biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary
New to this edition:
- Three new critical essays representing recent gender/queer, postcolonial, and cultural theories
- Expanded collection of contextual documents and illustrations, including images of Frankenstein from contemporary popular culture
- Updated editorial apparatus
Contents:
Part One
Frankenstein: The Complete Text in Cultural Context
Biographical and Historical Contexts
The Complete Text
Part Two
Frankenstein in Cultural Context
Part Three
Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
A Critical History of
Frankenstein
Psychoanalytic Criticism and
Frankenstein
David Collings, “The Monster and the Maternal Thing: Mary Shelley’s Critique of Ideology”
Feminist Criticism and
Frankenstein
Johanna M. Smith, “’Cooped Up” with “Sad Trash”: Domesticity and the Sciences in
Frankenstein”
Marxist Criticism and
Frankenstein
Warren Montag, “’The Workshop of Filthy Creation’: A Marxist Reading of
Frankenstein”
Gender Criticism/Queer Theory and
Frankenstein
New Grant F. Scott, “Victor’s Secret: Queer Gothic in Lynd Ward’s Illustrations to
Frankenstein (1934)”
Cultural Criticism and
Frankenstein
New Siobhan Carroll, “Crusades Against Frost: Frankenstein, Polar Ice, and Climate Change in 1818”
Postcolonial Criticism and
Frankenstein
New Allan Lloyd Smith, “’This Thing of Darkness’: Racial Discourse in Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein”
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms
About the editor:
Johanna M. Smith is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she teaches drama, law and literature, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature. She has published numerous articles in the latter fields, as well as a Twayne guide to Mary Shelley and a coedited anthology of eighteenth-century British women's life writings. Her current research focus is British women in the public sphere from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century.
