Table Of Contents:
Preface vii
The Text of Frankenstein 2(167)

MAP: Geneva and Its Environs 2(1)
Title page (1818) 3(1)
Dedication (1818) 4(1)
Preface 5(2)

Frankenstein 7(150)

COMPOSITION AND REVISION 157(12)

M. K. Joseph

The Composition of Frankenstein 157(3)

Anne K. Mellor

Choosing a Text of Frankenstein to Teach 160(9)
Contexts 169(16)

Mary Shelley

Introduction to Frankenstein, Third Edition (1831) 169(6)

Letter to [?Fanny Imlay] (June 1816) 173(2)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mont Blanc (1816) 175(5)

[The Sea of Ice] (1817) 179(1)

George Gordon, Lord Byron

From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1817) 180(2)

John William Polidori

Letter Prefaced to The Vampyre (1819) 182(3)
Nineteenth-Century Responses 185(20)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

On Frankenstein (1817) 185(2)

John Croker

From the Quarterly Review (January 1818) 187(4)

Anonymous

From Edinburgh Magazine (March 1818) 191(5)

Anonymous

From Gentleman's Magazine (April 1818) 196(1)

Anonymous

From Knight's Quarterly (Aug.-Nov. 1824) 197(3)

Hugh Reginald Haweis

Introduction to the Routledge World Library Edition (1886) 200(5)
Modern Criticism 205(128)

Christopher Small

[Percy] Shelley and Frankenstein 205(3)

George Levine

Frankenstein and the Tradition of Realism 208(6)

Ellen Moers

Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother 214(11)

Sandra M. Gilbert

Susan Gubar

Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve 225(16)

Barbara Johnson

My Monster/My Self 241(10)

Mary Poovey

"My Hideous Progeny": The Lady and the Monster 251(11)

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

[Frankenstein and a Critique of Imperialism] 262(9)

William Veeder

The Women of Frankenstein 271(3)

Anne K. Mellor

Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein 274(13)

Susan Winnett

Coming Unstrung: Women, Men, Narrative, and Principles of Pleasure 287(15)

Marilyn Butler

Frankenstein and Radical Science 302(11)

Lawrence Lipking

Frankenstein, the True Story; or, Rousseau Judges Jean-Jacques 313(20)
Mary Shelley: A Chronology 333(2)
Selected Bibliography 335