This Norton Critical Edition of Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece is based on the 1818 first edition text, published in three volumes by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mayor, and Jones. Throughout, the editor provides useful explanatory an-notation. A map of the region helps readers locate the novel's many settings. In'Composition and Revision," a special critical section, M. K. Joseph and Anne K. Mellor address the issues surrounding teachers' choice of text.

This Norton Critical Edition of Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece is based on the 1818 first edition text, published in three volumes by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mayor, and Jones. Throughout, the editor provides useful explanatory an-notation. A map of the region helps readers locate the novel's many settings. In'Composition and Revision," a special critical section, M. K. Joseph and Anne K. Mellor address the issues surrounding teachers' choice of text.

Contemporary perspective is provided in two supporting sections.'Contexts" includes related writings by Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John William Polidori.'Nineteenth-Century Responses" gathers six reactions to Frankenstein's publication from the years 1818 to 1886, including those by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Hugh Reginald Haweis.  'Criticism" is a collection of twelve seminal essays that provide a variety of perspectives on Frankenstein by Christopher Small, George Levine, 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.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Preface

The Text of Frankenstein

　MAP: Geneva and Its Environs

　Title page (1818)

　Dedication (1818)

　Preface

　Frankenstein

　COMPOSITION AND REVISION

M. K. Joseph·The Composition of Frankenstein

　　Anne K. Mellor·Choosing a Text of Frankenstein to Teach

Contexts

　Mary Shelley·Introduction to Frankenstein,Third Edition (1831)

　　　·Letter to [?Fanny Imlay] (June 1816)

　Percy Bysshe Shelley·Mont Blanc (1816)

　　·[The Sea of Ice] (1817)

　George Gordon, Lord Byron·From Childe Harold's

　　Pilgrimage, Canto In (1817)

　[John William Polidori]·Letter Prefaced to

The Vampyre (1819)

Nineteenth-Century Responses

　Percy Bysshe Shelley·On Frankenstein (1817)

　　[John Croker]·From the Quarterly Review

　　(January 1818)

　Anonymous·From Edinburgh Magazine

　　(March 1818)

　Anonymous·From Gentleman's Magazine (April 1818)

　Anonymous·From Knight's Quarterly (Aug.-Nov. 1824)

　Hugh Reginald Haweis·Introduction to the Routledge World Library Edition (1886)

Modern Criticism

　Christopher Small·[Percy] Shelley and Frankenstein

　George Levine·Frankenstein and the Tradition of Realism

　Ellen Moers·Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother

　Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar·Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve Barbara Johnson·My Monster/My Self

　Mary Poovey·"My Hideous Progeny": The Lady　and the Monster

　Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak·[Frankenstein and a Critique of Imperialism]

　William Veeder·The Women of Frankenstein

　Anne K. Mellor·Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein

　Susan Winnett·Coming Unstrung: Women, Men, Narrative, and Principles of Pleasure

　Marilyn Butler·Frankenstein and Radical Science

　Lawrence Lipking·Frankenstein, the True Story; or, Rousseau ]udges Jean-Jacques

Mary Shelley: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography