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

Name: Frankenstein: Or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198814047
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Contributors:

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Nick Groom (Editor)

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Fiction

Book Subcategory:

Classics, Horror

Edition Description:

3rd Edition

Series:

Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection

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Release Date:

2018-06-01

ISBN 13:

9780198814047

Weight:

0.9 lbs

Size:

8.70 x 5.50 x 1.20 inches

Pages:

304

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Frankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written. It tells the dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs a being from dead body parts, and animates this creature. The results for Victor and for his family are catastrophic.

Written when Mary Shelley was just eighteen, Frankenstein was inspired by the ghost stories and vogue for Gothic literature that fascinated the Romantic writers of her time. She transformed these supernatural elements into an epic parable that warned against the threats to humanity posed by accelerating technological progress.

Published for the 200th anniversary, this edition, based on the original 1818 text, explains in detail the turbulent intellectual context in which Shelley was writing, and also investigates how her novel has since become a byword for controversial practices in science and medicine, from manipulating ecosystems to vivisection and genetic modification. As an iconic study of power, creativity, and, ultimately, what it is to be human, Frankenstein continues to shape our thinking in profound ways to this day.

About the Author
Nick Groom is Professor in English at the University of Exeter. He has published widely for both academic and popular readerships, and among his many books are The Forger's Shadow (2002), The Union Jack (2006, rev. edn 2017), The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction (2012), The Seasons: A Celebration of the English Year (2014), and editions of a variety of eighteenth-century texts, from crime writing to Shakespeare. He has edited Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (2014), Matthew Lewis's The Monk (2016), and Ann Radcliffe's The Italian (2017) for the Oxford World's Classics series.

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