The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the 1818 first
edition, published in three volumes by Lackington, Hughes, Harding,
Mavor, and Jones, in which only obvious typographical errors have
been corrected.
This text represents what "Frankenstein"'s first readers
encountered and is the text favored by scholars.
A special critical section, Composition and Revision, includes
essays by M. K. Joseph and Anne Mellor that address the issues
surrounding teachers choice of text.
Contemporary perspectives of the text are provided in two sections:
Contexts helps place the novel in relation to the mind of its
creator through writings by Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley,
Lord Byron, and John William Polidori; Nineteenth-Century Responses
collects six reactions to the book from the years 1818 to 1886.
"Criticism" brings together twelve seminal essays. The emphasis is
on range-both critical (psychoanalytic, mythic, new historicist,
and feminist essays are included) and chronological (essays span
the last thirty years).
Christopher Small, George Lebine, Ellen Moers, Sandra M. Gilbert
and Susan Gubar, Barbara Johnson, Mary Poovey, Gayatri Chakravorty
Spivak, William Veeder, Anne K. Mellor, Susan Winnett, Marilyn
Butler, and Lawrence Lipking provide diverse perspectives.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
About the Series: No other series of classic texts equals the
caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the
most authoritative text available with the comprehensive
pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully.
Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory
annotations allow each textto meet the highest literary standards
while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on
acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print.
Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in
scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.
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