Frankenstein: or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text - Brossura

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

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ISBN 10: 0192833669 ISBN 13: 9780192833662

Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 1998

Riassunto

This new edition of Mary Shelley's classic novel uses the 1818 text, which is a mocking exposé of leaders and achievers who leave desolation in their wake, showing mankind its choice - to live co-operatively or to die of selfishness. It is also a black comedy, and harder and wittier than the 1831 version with which we are more familiar. Drawing on new research, Marilyn Butler examines the novel in the context of the radical sciences, which were developing among much controversy in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, and shows how Frankenstein's experiment relates to a contemporary debate between the champions of materialist science and of received religion.

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• Editore: Oxford Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0192833669
• ISBN 13: 9780192833662
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Redattore: Butler Marilyn