Frankenstein

Mary Shelley (August 30th, 1797-February 1st, 1851) is considered one of the greatest writers of her time. She is best known as the author of the classic gothic novel Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus. Johanna M. Smith is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she teaches drama, law and literature, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature. She has published numerous articles in the latter fields, as well as a Twayne guide to Mary Shelley and a coedited anthology of eighteenth-century British women's life writings. Her current research focus is British women in the public sphere from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century.

PART I: FRANKENSTEIN: THE COMPLETE TEXT IN CULTURAL CONTEXT 1. Biographical and Historical Contexts.- 2. The Complete Text.- PART II: FRANKENSTEIN IN CULTURAL CONTEXT.- PART III: FRANKENSTEIN: A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM 3. A Critical History of Frankenstein.- 4. Psychoanalytic Criticism and Frankenstein .- 5. The Monster and the Maternal Thing: Mary Shelley's Critique of Ideology; David Collings.- 6. Feminist Criticism and Frankenstein.- 7. 'Cooped Up' with 'Sad Trash': Domesticity and the Sciences in Frankenstein; Johanna M. Smith.- 8. Marxist Criticism and Frankenstein.- 9. 'The Workshop of Filthy Creation': A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein; Warren Montag.- 10. Gender Criticism/Queer Theory and Frankenstein.- 11. Victor's Secret: Queer Gothic in Lynd Ward's Illustrations to Frankenstein (1934); Grant F. Scott.- 12. Cultural Criticism and Frankenstein.- 13. Crusades Against Frost: Frankenstein, Polar Ice, and Climate Change in 1818; Siobhan Carroll.- 14. Postcolonial Criticism and Frankenstein.- 15. 'This Thing of Darkness': Racial Discourse in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Allan Lloyd Smith.- Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms.