Frankenstein, A Longman Cultural Edition

Susan J. Wolfson is professor of English at Princeton University. In addition to this present volume, her editorial work includes  Felicia Hemans (Princeton UP, 2000) and the Longman Cultural Edition of John Keats.  With Claudia Johnson, she is coeditor of the Longman Cultural Edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. With Peter Manning, she is coeditor of the Romantics volume in The Longman Anthology of British Literature, and Selected Poems of Lord Byron (Penguin, 2005).  Her critical books include the prize-winning Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism (Stanford UP, 1997) and Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism (Stanford UP, 2007).

• List of Illustrations     About Longman Cultural Editions     About This Edition     Introduction     Table of Dates     Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)   Volume I   Volume II   Volume III   from Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1831)   M. W. S.’s Introduction   Some Additions to Robert Walton’s first letters   Some Additions and Revisions to Victor Frankenstein’s Narrative   Victor’s childhood and the adoption of Elizabeth–Victor’s enchantment with occult science and his encounter with modern science–Victor’s departure for University of ­Ingolstadt–Clerval’s straits–Victor meets Professors Krempe and Waldman–Victor’s health suffers–Elizabeth’s report on Ernest Frankenstein–Clerval’s lament for William–Victor’s anguish over Justine and William–­Victor’s continuing agony–[Creature’s story of framing Justine]–Victor’s plans for a second creature–Clerval’s imperial ambitions–Victor’s apprehensions for his family, his longing for oblivion–Victor’s secretContexts     Monsters, Visionaries, and Mary Shelley    Aesthetic Adventures    Edmund Burke on “the Sublime and the Beautiful”    Mary Wollstonecraft on Burke’s genderings    William Gilpin on “the Picturesque”    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798)    Mary Wollstonecraft, from Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman: Jemima’s story    Mary Godwin (Shelley), from her journal of 1815: the death of her first baby    Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Alasto; or, The Spirit of Solitude    Mary Shelley, with Percy Bysshe Shelley, from History of a Six Weeks’ Tour: Alpine scenery    Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mont Blanc    George Gordon, Lord Byron    from Manfred, A Dramatic Poem    from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Third: Alpine thunderstorm    Leigh Hunt, from Blue-Stocking Revels, or The Feast of the Violets    Dr. Benjamin Spock, from Baby and Child Care    The Story-Telling Compact   George Gordon, Lord Byron, A Fragment    John William Polidori, The Vampyre    God, Adam, and Satan   Genesis: chapters 2 and 3 (King James Bible)  John Milton, from Paradise Lost    William Godwin, from Political Justice  George Gordon, Lord Byron, Prometheus   William Hazlitt, remarks on Satan, from Lectures on the English Poet    Percy Bysshe Shelleyfrom Prometheus Unbound    from A Defence of Poetry    Richard Brinsley Peake, Frankenstein, A Romantic Drama in Three Acts     Reviews and Reactions   [John Wilson Croker], Quarterly Review, January 1818    [Walter Scott], Blackwood’s Edinburgh Review, March 1818    (Scot’s) Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, March 1818    Belle Assemblée, March 1818    British Critic, April 1818    Gentleman’s Magazine, April 1818    Monthly Review, April 1818    Literary Panorama, June 1818    Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, March 1823    London Morning Post, reviews of Peake’s Frankenstein, July 1823    George Canning, remarks in Parliament, March 1824    Knight’s Quarterly Magazine, August 1824    London Literary Gazette, 1831    [Percy Bysshe Shelley, posthumous], Anthenæum, November 1832    Frankentalk: “Frankenstein” in the Popular Press of Today             Further Reading and Viewing