Shelley, Frankenstein (2021)

Mary Shelley.
Frankenstein.
Edited by Karen Swallow Prior ("A Guide to Reading and Reflecting").
Nashville, Tennessee: B&H Publishing, 2021.
(This edition reprints the text of the 1818 edition of Frankenstein.)

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.

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Wikipedia Articles: Author, Book, English Literature, British History

• Mary Shelley (1796–1851).
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), Mary Shelley's mother.
• William Godwin (1756–1836), Mary Shelley's father.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), Mary Shelley's husband.
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• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, 1818.
• Prometheus.
• Gothic fiction.
• History of science fiction: Shelley and Europe in the early 19th century.
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• English literature: Romanticism (1798 –1837).
• Romantic literature in English.
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• Early modern Britain: 18th century.
• History of the United Kingdom: 1800 to 1837.
• Georgian era, 1714 to c. 1830–1837.
• Regency era, c. 1795 – 1837.

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Editor:

• Karen Swallow Prior, her website.
• Karen Swallow Prior, Substack.
• Karen Swallow Prior, Twitter.
• Karen Swallow Prior, B&H Publishing.
• Karen Swallow Prior, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Prior, Karen Swallow, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
• Karen Swallow Prior. Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me. Ossining, New York: T. S. Poetry Press, 2012.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Karen Swallow Prior. On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press (Baker Publishing Group), 2018.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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In Our Time:

• Melvyn Bragg, Karen O'Brien, Michael Rossington, Jane Thomas, "Frankenstein," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 19 March 2020.
  • See episode notes for a Reading List / References.
• Melvyn Bragg, Patricia Fara, Andrew Mendelsohn, Pietro Corsi, "Vitalism," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 October 2008.
  • This episode of In Our Time describes the (scientific) intellectual context of Frankenstein.
  • Vitalism, Wikipedia.
  • Patricia Fara (b. 1948), Wikipedia.
  • Patricia Fara, History and Philosophy of Science, Emeritus Fellow, Clare College, University of Cambridge.
  • Dr Andrew Mendelsohn, School of History, Queen Mary, University of London.
  • Pietro Corsi (b. 1948), Wikipedia.
  • Professor Pietro Corsi, Emeritus Professor of the History of Science, Faculty of History, University of Oxford.
• Melvyn Bragg, Simon Schaffer, Patricia Fara, Iwan Morus, "Electrickery," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 4 November 2004.
  • This episode of In Our Time describes the (scientific) intellectual context of Frankenstein.
  • Electricity: History, Wikipedia.
  • Simon Schaffer (b. 1955), Wikipedia.
  • Simon Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.
  • Patricia Fara (b. 1948), Wikipedia.
  • Patricia Fara, History and Philosophy of Science, Emeritus Fellow, Clare College, University of Cambridge.
  • Morus, Iwan Rhys 1964-, encyclopedia.com.
  • Prof Iwan Morus, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University, Wales.
  • Iwan Rhys Morus. Frankenstein's Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London.. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Robert Woof, Jennifer Wallace, "The Later Romantics," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 15 April 2004.
  • This episode of In Our Time describes the (literary) intellectual context of Frankenstein.
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  • English literature: Romanticism (1798 –1837).
  • Romantic literature in English.
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  • William Blake (1757–1827), Wikipedia.
  • William Wordsworth (1770–1850), Wikipedia.
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), Wikipedia.
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  • Lord Byron (1788–1824), Wikipedia.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), Wikipedia.
  • John Keats (1795–1821), Wikipedia.
  • John Clare (1793–1864), Wikipedia.
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  • William Hazlitt (1778–1830), Wikipedia.
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  • Jonathan Bate (b.1958), Wikipedia.
  • Jonathan Bate, his website.
  • Professor Sir Jonathan Bate, Faculty of English, University of Oxford.
  • Sir Jonathan Bate, Arizona State University.
  • Robert Woof (1931–2005), Wikipedia.
  • Robert Woof CBE, Royal Society of Literature.
  • Robert Woof, Obituary, The Guardian, 11 November 2005.
  • Dr. Jennifer Wallace, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.
• Melvyn Bragg, Clive Oppenheimer, Jane Stabler, Lawrence Goldman, "1816, the Year Without a Summer," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 21 April 2016.
  • See episode notes for a Reading List / References.
  • This episode of In Our Time includes some discussion of Shelley's Frankenstein since she started writing it during the bad weather in Geneva during the Summer of 1816.
• Melvyn Bragg, John Mullan, Karen O'Brien, Barbara Taylor, "Mary Wollstonecraft," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 31 December 2009.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), Wikipedia.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Men, 1790, Wikipedia.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792, Wikipedia.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft. A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; occasioned by his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Second Edition. London: J. Johnson, 1790.
    [Archive.org.]
  • Mary Wollstonecraft. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects.
    [Archive.org, Boston 1792; Archive.org, Philadelphia 1794; Archive.org, London 1796.]
  • Mary Wollstonecraft. A Vindication of the Rights of Men -and- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Edited by Janet Todd. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Mary Wollstonecraft. A Vindication of the Rights of Men -and- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Edited by Sylvana Tomaselli. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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  • William Godwin (1756–1836), Wikipedia.
  • William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793), Wikipedia.
  • William Godwin, Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794, 1831), Wikipedia.
  • William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798), Wikipedia.
  • William Godwin. Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. London: J. Johnson, 1798.
    [Google Books.]
  • William Godwin. Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Second Edition, Corrected. London: J. Johnson, 1798.
    [Archive.org.]
  • William Godwin. Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Women'. Edited by Richard Holmes. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 1987.
    (This edition also includes: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.)
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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  • John Mullan, Wikipedia.
  • Professor John Mullan, Department of English, University College, London.
  • Karen O'Brien, Wikipedia.
  • Professor Karen O'Brien, Vice-Chancellor and Warden, Durham University.
  • Barbara Taylor (b. 1950), Wikipedia.
  • Professor Barbara Taylor, School of History, Queen Mary University of London.
• Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Rosemary Ashton, Nicholas Roe, "The Romantics," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 12 October 2000.
  • English literature: Romanticism (1798 –1837).
  • Romantic literature in English.
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  • John Locke (1632–1704), Wikipedia.
  • David Hartley (1705–1757), Wikipedia.
  • David Hume (1711–1776), Wikipedia.
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Wikipedia.
  • Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), Wikipedia.
  • Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), Wikipedia.
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  • William Blake (1757–1827), Wikipedia.
  • Robert Burns (1759–1796), Wikipedia.
  • William Wordsworth (1770–1850), Wikipedia.
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), Wikipedia.
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  • Lord Byron (1788–1824), Wikipedia.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), Wikipedia.
  • John Keats (1795–1821), Wikipedia.
  • John Clare (1793–1864), Wikipedia.
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  • Walter Scott (1771–1832), Wikipedia.
  • William Hazlitt (1778–1830), Wikipedia.
  • Leigh Hunt (1784–1859), Wikipedia.
  • Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859), Wikipedia.
  • Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Wikipedia.
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  • Jonathan Bate (b.1958), Wikipedia.
  • Jonathan Bate, his website.
  • Professor Sir Jonathan Bate, Faculty of English, University of Oxford.
  • Sir Jonathan Bate, Arizona State University.
  • Rosemary Ashton (b. 1947), Wikipedia.
  • Professor Rosemary Ashton, Department of English Language and Literature, University College London.
  • Nicholas Roe (b. 1955), Wikipedia.
  • Prof Nicholas Roe, School of English, University of St Andrews.

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Some other editions of Frankenstein :

• Mary Shelley. Frankenstein: or 'The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text, Third Edition. Edited by Nick Groom. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
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• Mary Shelley. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text. Edited by Charlotte Gordon and Charles E. Robinson. Penguin Classics. New York: Penguin Random House, 2018.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Mary Shelley. Frankenstein, Third Edition. Edited by J. Paul Hunter. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Mary Shelley. The New Annotated Frankenstein. Edited by Leslie S. Klinger. New York: Liveright (W. W. Norton & Company), 2017.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. The Annotated Frankenstein. Edited by Susan J. Wolfson and Ronald Levao. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2012.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Comments on the Karen Swallow Prior edition of Frankenstein :

Despite the pleasing physical appearance of Prior's edition (a hardcover book with sewn binding), I think readers will be more satisfied with the more professionally edited and more fully annotated (and illustrated in two cases) editions published by Harvard and Norton (see notes above): either (a) The New Annotated Frankenstein edited by Klinger, or (b) The Annotated Frankenstein edited by Wolfson and Levao, or (c) the Norton Critical Edition edited by Hunter. I would also rather use the Oxford and Penguin editions than the Prior edition.

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