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The complete online text of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

By the time she was nineteen, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley had written one of the most famous novels ever published. Embodying one of the central myths of Western culture, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818, tells the story o...

By the time she was nineteen, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley had written one of the most famous novels ever published. Embodying one of the central myths of Western culture, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818, tells the story o...

The most eloquent summary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's position in English letters is still Leigh Hunt's much-quoted couplet from "The Blue-Stocking Revels": "And Shelley, fourfam'd,--for her parents, her lord, / And the poor lone impossible monster...

On the shores of Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816, nineteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), her future husband, Percy Shelley, and their charismatic friend Lord Byron engaged in a ghost-story contest. After seeing a vision of what...

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) by Mary Shelley provides the most potent, characteristic, and uniquely modern myth of science gone fatally awry. The common association of the name Frankenstein, thanks to many popular movies, is with the...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Born in London in 1797, Mary Shelley was the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollestonecraft, both of them writers and revolutionaries famous for their radical ideas. Godwin was primarily a political philosopher, and...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was the daughter of two of England's most nonconformist thinkers, William Godwin, the radical philosopher, and Mary Wollstonecraft, the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (also covered...

Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 19 years old. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the revised third...

The Frankenstein Ford Five Hundred sedan you see here has a monster 590-hp supercharged powerplant from the exotic Ford GT sitting back where the rear seat used to be. Here’s a startling tidbit: It was built by community-college students. Well, okay, they got some engineering...

No sexy Inga, no green monster — and what is most important, no $450 seats."Frankenstein," a new musical now on view at 37 Arts, does have a last name in common with Mel Brooks' Broadway version, however. Hunter Foster has the part of Victor Frankenstein...

What does it take to bring a big green monster — not to mention a $20 million musical — to toe-tapping life? A nearly 80-year-old Irving Berlin standard called "Puttin' on the Ritz."The song shakes the slumbers out of "Young Frankenstein," the feverishly anticipated Mel...

In the last six years, Roger Bart has had quite a ride. "The Producers," of course. Movies. Television. Remember George, the psychotic pharmacist on "Desperate Housewives"? And now back to Broadway as the lead in Mel Brooks' stage version of his 1974 film classic, "Young...

In the essay that follows, Knoepflmacher contends that "Frankenstein is a novel of omnipresent fathers and absent mothers," a situation he relates explicitly to Shelley's own family history and the repressed anger at her father that appears to surface in the novel.

In the essay that follows, Veeder emphasizes the significance of Shelley's relationship with her father, examining less its latent aggressiveness than its latent desire. In order to make his argument, Veeder invokes Freudian psychoanalysis, describing Shelley and Godwin's relationship through the structure of a negative oedipal complex.

In the following essay, Lew explores Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as a critique of Romantic ideology as well as of the expansion of the British empire. He focuses on her use of Orientalist motifs and images of the dream maiden and the mother.

Compares the classic literary monsters Grendel and Frankenstein. Describes how both Grendel and Frankenstein were treated by society. Explains why Grendel and Frankenstein became the monsters of their stories.

Discussion of the destructiveness of tinkering with nature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Compares the Mary Shelley Frankenstein text to the ancient Greek Prometheus myth. Concludes Just as Victor accepts the creature is a manifestation of all possible and terrible torments, and just as Prometheus endured the Vulture, so must mankind accept the consequences of its actions in a modern social and scientific environment.