Frankenstein - 92 edition

Part I. Frankenstein: The Complete Text

Frankenstein [1831 Text]

Part II. Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism

Reader-Response Criticism
Mary Lowe-Evans, Reading with a "Nicer Eye": Responding to Frankenstein
Psychoanalytic Criticism
David Collings, The Monster and the Imaginary Mother: A Lacanian Reading of Frankenstein
Feminist Criticism
Johanna M. Smith, "Cooped Up": Feminine Domesticity in Frankenstein
Marxist Criticism
Warren Montag, "The Workshop of Filthy Creation": A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein
Cultural Criticism
Lee E. Heller, Frankenstein and the Cultural Uses of Gothic

Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms
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