Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Harold Bloom
  • On Frankenstein / Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Frankenstein / Robert Kiely
  • Thematic Anatomy: Intrinsic Structures / David Ketterer
  • Horror's Twin: Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
  • Parent-Child Tensions in Frankenstein: The Search for Communion / Laura P. Claridge
  • Frankenstein: Self-Division and Projection / William Veeder
  • Victor Frankenstein's Romantic Fate: The Tragedy of the Promethean Overreacher as Woman / Barbara Frey Waxman
  • The Landscape of Grief in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Matthew C. Brennan
  • Wading Through Slaughter: John Hampden, Thomas Gray, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Iain Crawford
  • Mary Shelley and the Taming of the Byronic Hero: "Transformation" and The Deformed Transformed / Paul A. Cantor
  • The Groomsmen / Mary Lowe-Evans
  • Melancholy Reflection: Constructing an Identity for Unveilers of Nature / Ludmilla Jordanova
  • Frankenstein and Natural Magic / Crosbie Smith
  • The Monster in the Family: a reconsideration of Frankenstein's domestic relationships / Debra E. Best.