Table of Contents
Preface Introduction Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Appendix A: The Education of Mary Shelley: Godwin and Wollstonecraft
- Godwin
- Wollstonecraft
Appendix B: The Education of Victor Frankenstein: Darwin and Davy
- Darwin
- Davy
Appendix C: The Education of the Monster: Volney, Goethe, Plutarch, Milton, and Wollstonecraft
- Volney
- Goethe
- Plutarch
- Milton
- Wollstonecraft
Appendix D: Reviews of Frankenstein
- Walter Scott, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
- The Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany (1818)
- John Wilson Croker, Quarterly Review (1817-18)
- P.B. Shelley, Athenaeum (10 November 1832)
Appendix E: Richard Brinsley Peake, Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (1823)
Appendix F: Lord Byron, “A Fragment” (1819)
Appendix G: John William Polidori, The Vampyre: A Tale (1819)
Appendix H: Substantive Variants
Appendix I: Introduction to Shelley’s 1831 Edition
Works Cited/Recommended Reading