Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Section 1. Contexts
1. General Introduction
2. Directory of Proper Names
3. Chronology of Mary Shelley
4. Contemporary Documents
1. John Abernethy, An Inquiry into the Probability and Rationality of Mr. Hunter's 'Theory of Life'
2. William Lawrence, Two Introductiry Lectures.at the Royal College of Surgeons
3. Quarterly Review 22, 1820 1-34
4. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Last Man
5. The Journals of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
7. From Letters written in Geneva
Section 2: Interpretation
5. Presumption, Science and Religion Early Receptions of Frankenstein
Reviews
1. The Belle Assemblee, or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine
2. Review of Presumption; or the Fate of Frankenstein
3. Sir Walter Scott, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
4. Percy Bysshe Shelley, On Frankenstein
6. Why Did You Make Me Like This?! Performing Frankenstein
Frankenphemes
1. Richard Brinsley Peake, Presumption: Or the Fate of Frankenstein
2. Kathleen Sullivan, "This New Promethean Fire: Radioactive Monsters and Sustainable Nuclear Futures"
3. Adaptations and Hybrids: Notable Translations, Frankensteinian Fictions, Frankensteinian Erotica, Theatrical Adaptations, Film Adaptations, Television Adaptations, Frankenstein in Music, Multimedia and Interactive
4. Works Consulted
7. Modern Criticism
a. The Body, Duet, medicine and Science * b. Commodity Culture and Social Structure * c. Gender and Queer Theories * d. Genre, Literary Form and Literary History * e. Language and Psyche * f. Race, Colonialism and Orientalism
Section 3: Key Passages
8. Key Passages: Extracts from theNovel
1. Title Page * 2. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Preface to Frankenstein * 3. Colume 1 * 4. Volume 2 *5. Volume 3 * 6. Changes to the 1831 Edition: A Selection
9. Recommended Editions and Further Reading
10. Works Cited
11. Index