The new annotated Frankenstein
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Klinger, Leslie S., editor,
Byrne, Janet, researcher.
Toro, Guillermo del, 1964- writer of introduction.
Mellor, Anne K., writer of afterword.
Published
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2017].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780871409492, 0871409496
Physical Desc
xxix, 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
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Published
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2017].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780871409492, 0871409496

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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical (pages 343-350) references.
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"'Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge,' writes ... author Leslie S. Klinger in his foreword to The New Annotated Frankenstein. Despite its undeniable status as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written, Mary Shelley's novel is often reductively dismissed as the wellspring for tacky monster films or as a cautionary tale about experimental science gone haywire. Now, two centuries after the first publication of Frankenstein, Klinger revives Shelley's gothic masterpiece by reproducing her original text with the most lavishly illustrated and comprehensively annotated edition to date. Featuring over 200 illustrations and nearly 1,000 annotations, this sumptuous volume recaptures Shelley's early nineteenth-century world with historical precision and imaginative breadth, tracing the social and political roots of the author's revolutionary brand of Romanticism. Braiding together decades of scholarship with his own keen insights, Klinger recounts Frankenstein's indelible contributions to the realms of science fiction, feminist theory, and modern intellectual history--not to mention film history and popular culture. The result of Klinger's exhaustive research is a multifaceted portrait of one of Western literature's most divinely gifted prodigies, a young novelist who defied her era's restrictions on female ambitions by independently supporting herself and her children as a writer and editor. Born in a world of men in the midst of a political and an emerging industrial revolution, Shelley crafted a horror story that, beyond its incisive commentary on her own milieu, is widely recognized as the first work of science fiction. The daughter of a pioneering feminist and an Enlightenment philosopher, Shelley lived and wrote at the center of British Romanticism, the 'exuberant, young movement' that rebelled against tradition and reason and 'with a rebellious scream gave birth to a world of gods and monsters' (Guillermo del Toro). Following his best-selling The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft and The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Klinger not only considers Shelley's original 1818 text but, for the first time in any annotated volume, traces the effects of her significant revisions in the 1823 and 1831 editions. With an afterword by renowned literary scholar Anne K. Mellor, The New Annotated Frankenstein celebrates the prescient genius and undying legacy of the world's 'first truly modern myth.'" -- Dust jacket.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Shelley, M. W., Klinger, L. S., Byrne, J., Toro, G. d., & Mellor, A. K. (2017). The new annotated Frankenstein (First edition.). Liveright Publishing Corporation.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley et al.. 2017. The New Annotated Frankenstein. Liveright Publishing Corporation.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley et al.. The New Annotated Frankenstein Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, et al. The New Annotated Frankenstein First edition., Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.

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