Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft:
Frankenstein
Or The Modern Prometheus - The 1818 Text
Editor: MarilynButler
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom), 2008
Paperback, 336 pages
Size: 196x129 mm
ISBN: 9780199537150
ISBN-10: 0199537151
List price: £4.99
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Frankenstein
or The Modern Prometheus The 1818 Text. Frankenstein was Mary Shelley's immensely powerful contribution to the ghost stories which she, Percy Shelley, and Byron wrote one wet summer in Switzerland. Its protagonist is a young student of natural philosophy, who learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constructed from relics of the dead, with horrific consequences. Frankenstein confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism: topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and mankind's status as a species of animal. The text used here is from the 1818 edition, which is a mocking expos'e of leaders and

