Frankenstein, Third Edition

Paperback, 375 pages

Published June 19, 2012 by Broadview Press.

ISBN:
978-1-55481-103-8
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OCLC Number:
793944954

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D.L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf’s edition of Frankenstein has been widely acclaimed as an outstanding edition of the novel—for the general reader and the student as much as for the scholar. The editors use as their copy-text the original 1818 version, and detail in an appendix all of Shelley’s later revisions. They also include a range of contemporary documents that shed light on the historical context from which this unique masterpiece emerged.

New to this edition is a discussion of Percy Shelley’s role in contributing to the first draft of the novel. Recent scholarship has provoked considerable interest in the degree to which Percy Shelley contributed to Mary Shelley’s original text, and this edition’s updated introduction discusses this scholarship. A new appendix also includes Lord Byron’s “A Fragment” and John William Polidori’s The Vampyre, works that are engaging in their own right and that also add further insights into the …

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I had never read this, and I was surprised by a number of things: that we get a detailed account of the monster's learning process (which had me thinking of LLMs), that the Monster is smarter and more rhetorically savvy than Victor, and that the Monster's rhetorical skill is highlighted by Shelley (we hear of the monster's "sophistry" which then had me wondering: Is this where @sophist_monster comes from?

One last thought...this book is tale of what happens when science rejects aesthetics in the name of pure efficiency and function. If Victor had cared at all about what the monster looked like, then the entire story unfolds quite differently. The monster's hideous "countenance" (Shelley's favorite word by far, btw) is why he can't have a connection with person, regardless of how much he craves that connection.

Wollte ich schon lange lesen

"Frankenstein oder Der moderne Prometheus" von Mary Shelley wollte ich schon lange mal lesen und nachdem ich mir selbst zu Weihnachten einen Tolino geschenkt hatte und feststellte, das es ne kostenlose EPUB davon gab, hab ich das nun endlich mal getan. Ich hatte schon mal ein, zwei Kurzgeschichten von Edgar Allan Poe gelesen und hatte mich auf einen nicht so ganz leicht zu lesenden Text eingestellt, doch wurde ich positiv überrascht. Der Text lässt sich sehr leicht und gut lesen. Vor allem die ersten Kapitel, in den Viktor das "Ungeheuer" erschafft und dann die Passagen, in denen sie später miteinander interagieren oder der Bericht des "Ungeheuers", wie es ihm nach seiner Erschaffung erging, war wirklich richtig spannend und mitreißend. Die Kapitel hatte ich dann meist auch richtig schnell durch, weil sie mich so gefesselt haben. Dem gegenüber steht aber leider ein Problem, das sich meiner Meinung nach viele Texte der …