complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives
Presents the final 1831 edition of Mary Shelley's novel about a young medical student who creates a living being and suffers violent consequences for his actions; and provides historical and biographical background, contextual documents, and overviews of psychoanalytic, feminist, gender, Marxist, and cultural criticism using "Frankenstein" as a critical model.
