Frankenstein

Overview:

• Title: Frankenstein
• Author: Mary Shelley
• Year: 1996
• ISBN-10: 0393964582
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Pages: xii+336
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Type: Novel
• Title Reference: Frankenstein
• Notes:
  • This is an edition of the 1818 text.
  • The title page reads: A Norton Critical Edition / Mary Shelley / Frankenstein / The 1818 Text / Contexts / Nineteenth-Century Responses / Modern Criticism / Edited by J. Paul Hunter, University of Chicago
  • Brackets around a title indicate that the editor assigned this designation to an untitled excerpt.
  • The critical material includes a section headed "Contexts" which contains selections, not indexed here, from Mary Shelley's contemporaries, illustrating literary influences on her. They are: the poem "Mont Blanc" (p. 175) by Percy Bysshe Shelley; [The Sea of Ice] (p. 179), a description of a glacier by the same; and excerpts from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (p. 180) by Lord Byron.
  • Cover painting is Das Eismeer (c. 1823-24) by Caspar David Friedrich.