Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-331) and index. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley and Frankenstein : a chronology / Peter Dale Scott -- The ambiguous heritage of Frankenstein / George Levine -- Frankenstein as mystery play / Judith Wilt -- Fire and ice in Frankenstein / Andrew Griffin -- Female Gothic / Ellen Mãirs -- Thoughts on the aggression of daughters / U.C. Knãipflmacher -- Monsters in the garden : Mary Shelley and the bourgeois family / Kate Ellis -- Mary Shelley's monster : politics and psyche in Frankenstein / Lee Sterrenburg -- Vital artifice : Mary, Percy, and the psychopolitical integrity of Frankenstein / Peter Dale Scott --"Godlike science/unhallowed arts" : language, nature, and monstrosity / Peter Brooks -- Frankenstein and comedy / Philip Stevick -- The stage and film children of Frankenstein : a survey / Albert J. Lavalley -- Coming to life : Frankenstein and the nature of film narrative / Wiliam Nestrick -- Appendix : "Face to face" : of man-apes, monsters, and readers. |