Frankenstein

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Frankenstein

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ISBN: 9780486282114
author: Mary Shelley
publishing house: Dover Publications
publication date: 1994
series: Dover thrift editions
binding: Paperback
price: USD 6.00
number of pages: 166

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This new edition of Mary Shelley's classic novel uses the 1818 text, which is a mocking exposé of leaders and achievers who leave desolation in their wake, showing mankind its choice - to live co-operatively or to die of selfishness. It is also a black comedy, and harder and wittier than the 1831 version with which we are more familiar. Drawing on new research, Marilyn Butler examines the novel in the context of the radical sciences, which were developing among much controversy in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, and shows how Frankenstein's experiment relates to a contemporary debate between the champions of materialist science and of received religion. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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