ENG 2700: Critical Writing & Literary Analysis: Books on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley helps readers to assess for themselves her remarkable body of work. In clear, accessible essays, a distinguished group of scholars place Shelley's works in several historical and aesthetic contexts: literary history, the legacies of her parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and of course the life and afterlife, in cinema, robotics and hypertext, of Frankenstein.

This Guide encapsulates the most important critical reactions to a novel that straddles the realms of both high literature and popular culture. The selections shed light on Frankenstein's historical and socio-political relevance, its innovative representations of science, gender, and identity, as well as its problematic cultural location between academic critique and creative production.

This book surveys the early history of one of our most important modern myths: the story of Frankenstein and the monster he created, as it appeared in fictional and other writings before its translation to the cinema screen.

This sourcebook examines Mary Shelley's novel within its literary and cultural contexts, bringing together material on: the contexts from which Frankenstein emerged, the novel's early reception, adaptation and performance of the work (from theatre to pop music), and recent criticism.

The definitive account of Mary Shelley's life from her own pen is now available in a single softcover volume. Here we see even more vividly than in her letters her sympathetic identification with nature and her struggles with--and ultimate surrender to--the lifelong depression that followed her husband's death.

The life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley who wrote the classic "Frankenstein" when she was only 18-years-old, goes beyond the story of how her novel was written and explores the real and tragic life of a writer who was flawed, brave, generous, and impetuous. Illustrations.

In this authoritative, ground-breaking biography, she is finally restored to her rightful stature as one of the major figures in English literary history. Here for the first time is a full account of Mary Shelley's career, significant areas of which have never before been examined: her precocious childhood, her adolescent liaison with the radical poet Shelley, her creation of Frankenstein at the age of nineteen, her tempestuous but brilliant married years with Shelley, and, of particular note, the dramatic second half of her life, after Shelley's death.