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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bloom, Harold
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2007]
Series:Bloom's guides.
Subjects:
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, > 1797-1851. > Frankenstein.
Horror tales, English > History and criticism.
Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character)
Scientists in literature.
Monsters in literature.
Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character)
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Biographical sketch
  • The story behind the story
  • List of Characters
  • Summary and analysis
  • Critical views
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley on Frankenstein
  • Crosbie Smith on Victor's Genovese years
  • Ludmilla Jordanova on melancholy reflection
  • Anne K. Mellor on the modern Prometheus
  • David Ketterer on the sublime setting
  • Muriel Spark on the shifting roles of Frankenstein and his monster
  • Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar on Milton's influence
  • Laura P. Claridge on familial tensions
  • Betty T. Bennett on the exercise of power and responsibility
  • Matthew C. Brennan on the psychology of landscape in Frankenstein
  • William Crisman on sibling rivalry
  • Janis McLarren Caldwell on sympathy and similitude.