Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus - Brossura

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

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ISBN 10: 1554811031 ISBN 13: 9781554811038

Casa editrice: Broadview Pr, 2012

Riassunto

D.L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf’s edition of Frankenstein has been widely acclaimed as an outstanding edition of the novel—for the general reader and the student as much as for the scholar. The editors use as their copy-text the original 1818 version, and detail in an appendix all of Shelley’s later revisions. They also include a range of contemporary documents that shed light on the historical context from which this unique masterpiece emerged.

New to this edition is a discussion of Percy Shelley’s role in contributing to the first draft of the novel. Recent scholarship has provoked considerable interest in the degree to which Percy Shelley contributed to Mary Shelley’s original text, and this edition’s updated introduction discusses this scholarship. A new appendix also includes Lord Byron’s “A Fragment” and John William Polidori’s The Vampyre, works that are engaging in their own right and that also add further insights into the literary context of Frankenstein.

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Recensione

Comments:

This is the best, the most thoughtful advanced school edition of Frankenstein ever done. The text is well-edited, the introduction is thorough, and the collection of contextual documents could hardly be improved. --Jerome McGann, University of Virginia

Superb. The introduction and appendices are particularly valuable ... accessible and illuminating."

--Bernard Hirsch, University of Kansas

I have taught Frankenstein before, but this edition, with its compact, thoughtfully chosen, pedagogically helpful, and scholarly auxiliaries to the text of the novel, has renewed my excitement about teaching it again. The novel itself awakens interest in the students, but the introductions and appendices compel their respect for scholarly work and offer many creative ways to go about it." ---- Randall VanderMey, Westmont College

L'autore

The late D.L. Macdonald was Professor of English at the University of Calgary.Kathleen Scherf is Professor of Communications at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia. They co-edited the Broadview Editions of Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Vindications, Matthew Gregory Lewis’s The Monk, and John Polidori’s The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Broadview Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1554811031
• ISBN 13: 9781554811038
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 357
• Redattore: Macdonald D. L., Scherf Kathleen