Frankenstein
Language: English
19th Century English Literature Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Classics Criticism Epistolary fiction Fiction Frankenstein (Fictitious character) Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character) Frankenstein; Victor (Fictitious character) General General & Literary Fiction Geneva (Switzerland) Gothic fiction Horror Horror - General Horror fiction Literary Literature - Classics Literature: Classics Monsters Science Fiction Scientists Shelley; Mary Wollstonecraft; 1797-1851
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 15, 2009
Description:
SUMMARY: Shelley's enduringly popular and rich gothic tale 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, and shows the relationship of Frankenstein's experiment to the contemporary debate between champions of materialistic science and proponents of received religion.