List of Illustrations
Preface
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley and Frankenstein: A Chronology

Part I. Traditions: Looking Forwards and Backwards
Part II. Biographical Soundings: Of Mothers and Daughters
Part III. Contexts: Society and Self
Part IV. Texture: Language and the Grotesque
Part V: The Visual Progeny: Drama and Film

Appendix
Contributors
Selected Annotated Bibliography
Index

"A highly speculative and entertaining set of essays."—English Studies

"Many of the energies, interests, and elements that went into the making of [Mary Shelley's] first and most formidable novel are documented in this extraordinary novel."—Nineteenth Century Fiction

"Anchored solidly to the phenomenon of Frankenstein's 'endurance' in forms both palpable and pernicious. . . . the essayists allow their readings to intertwine, to interact, and eventually to integrate [into] a cohesive set of writings on a novel that, like its monstrously equivocal central figure, will never die. . . . this well-managed collection achieves a level of explication not to be found elsewhere."—Choice

"Daring in the right sense...their rich anthology never sinks to the level of pedantic shelf-stuffing."—Booklist

"A cross between a symposium and a casebook...there is no paper from which I did not derive some stimulating food for thought."—The Wordsworth Circle