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

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Marilyn Butler (Editor)

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Frankenstein was Mary Shelley's immensely powerful contribution to the ghost stories which she, Percy Shelley, and Byron wrote one wet summer in Switzerland. Its protagonist is a young student of natural philosophy, who learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constructed from relics of the dead, with horrific consequences.

Frankenstein confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism: topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and mankind's status as a species of animal. The text used here is from the 1818 edition, which is a mocking exposé of leaders and achievers who leave desolation in their...Read more
  • ISBN10 0199537151
  • ISBN13 9780199537150
  • Publish Date 14 August 2008 (first published 1 January 1818)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 25 February 2020
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oxford University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 336
  • Language English