Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This sourcebook examines Mary Shelley's novel within its literary and cultural contexts providing an ideal orientation in the novel, its reception history and the critical material which surrounds it.

Timothy Morton teaches English at the University of California, Davis, USA. His publications include The Poetics of Spice (2000), and Shelley and the Revolution in Taste (1994), and he is editor of Radical Food (2000).

"The editors have cleverly used blocks of grey text throughout the book to separate the editorial voice from documents by other authors, and tools such as the Table of Contents, the Chronology, and the Directory of Figures make negotiating the information in the text much easier."
-Sharon Emerichs, University of Missouri-Columbia, "Science Fiction Studies, 2005