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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Modern Critical Interpretations)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Modern Critical Interpretations Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein is remembered as a novel valuable in itself and prophetic of an intellectual world to come. It is seen as depicting a Prometheanism that is still with us. In this text noted critics examine subjects surrounding the novel such as creation as catastrophe, Frankenstein as the negative Oedipus, and a piece by Joyce Carol ... more »Oates on Frankenstein?s fallen angel. The title, Mary Wollsonecraft Shelley?s Frankenstein, part of Chelsea House Publishers? Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Mary Wollsonecraft Shelley?s Frankenstein through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Mary Wollsonecraft Shelley, a chronology of the author?s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.« less