- Arts & Humanities
- Online Resources
- Grove Art Online
- Grove Music Online
- Oxford Islamic Studies Online
- Oxford Scholarly Editions Online - Medieval Poetry
- View All
- Resources
- Close
- Dictionaries & Reference
-
- Geographical Reference
- Bilingual Dictionaries
- Encyclopedias
- English Dictionaries
- Language Reference
- Quotations
- Thesauri
- Online Resources
- Resources
- Close
-
- Law
-
- Antitrust Law
- Arbitration
- Civil Law
- Comparative Law
- Constitutional & Administrative Law
- Construction Law
- Contract Law
- Corporate Law
- Criminal Law
- Employment & Labor Law
- Environment & Energy Law
- European Union Law
- Family Law
- Financial Law
- History of Law
- Human Rights & Immigration
- Intellectual Property Law
- International Law
- IT & Communications Law
- Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law
- Law & Politics
- Law & Society
- Legal System & Practice
- Medical & Healthcare Law
- Philosophy of Law
- Policing
- Property Law
- Study & Revision
- Terrorism & National Security Law
- Tort Law
- Online Resources
- Investment Claims
- Oxford International Organizations
- Oxford Legal Research Library
- Oxford Reports on International Law
- View All
- Resources
- Close
-
- Medicine & Health
-
- Allied Health Professions
- Anesthesiology
- Clinical Medicine
- Clinical Neuroscience
- Critical Care
- Dentistry
- Emergency Medicine
- Family Practice
- Forensic Medicine
- Hematology
- History of Medicine
- Medical Dentistry
- Medical Ethics
- Medical Skills
- Online Resources
- ESC CardioMed
- Oxford Medicine Online
- Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health
- Oxford Student Room
- View All
- Resources
- Close
-
- Science & Mathematics
-
- Biological Sciences
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Computing
- Earth Sciences & Geography
- Engineering & Technology
- Environmental Science
- History of Science & Technology
- Materials Science
- Mathematics
- Neuroscience
- Physics
- Psychology
- Online Resources
- Oxford Clinical Psychology
- Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Physics
- Oxford Scholarship Online
- Very Short Introductions
- View All
- Resources
- Close
-
- Social Sciences
- Online Resources
- Encyclopedia of Social Work
- Oxford Handbooks Online: Political Science
- Oxford Scholarship Online
- Very Short Introductions
- View All
- Resources
- Close
Frankenstein
or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Edited by Nick Groom
Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
- A new edition of Mary Shelley's immensely powerful and iconic Gothic novel.
- An epic parable warning against the threats to humanity posed by accelerating technological progress.
- Nick Groom's fascinating introduction details the literary and historical context of Frankenstein, from the politics of human rights raised by the French Revolution, to approaches to maternity and women's writing, and Gothic engagement with science and technology.
- Considers the novel's contribution to contemporary debates in animal studies, identity politics, the environment, and changing definitions of the 'human'.
- Published to mark the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein's original 1818 edition.
New to this Edition:
- Appendices of Mary Shelley's biographical introduction to the 1831 edition, the substantive changes made for that edition, and Percy Bysshe Shelley's own (anonymous) review of the novel.
- Up-to-date bibliography, extensive new biographical and cultural chronology, and revised explanatory notes