Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text

Name: Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Varios Autores
ISBN: 8601409820071

Varios Autores

05/03/1998
Oxford Paperbacks

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Couverture de Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text par Varios Autores

Résumé

This new edition of Mary Shelley's classic novel uses the 1818 text, which is a mocking expose of leaders and achievers who leave desolation in their wake, showing mankind its choice - to live co-operatively or to die of selfishness. It is also a black comedy, and harder and wittier than the 1831 version with which we are more familiar. Drawing on new research, Marilyn Butler examines the novel in the context of the radical sciences, which were developing among much controversy in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, and shows how Frankenstein's experiment relates to a contemporary debate between the champions of materialist science and of received religion.