Monsters - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Mathilda

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"Cultures create and ascribe meaning to monsters, endowing them with characteristics derived from their most deep-seated fears and tabboos. In this volume, Millikin Raymond explores Frankenstein and Mathilda from a feminist and cultural studies perspective, illuminating the cultural transgressions that each work presents through its monsters. Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus, conceived by Shelley at the age of nineteen and published before she was twenty, is the most famous and enduring imaginative works of the Romantic era. Shelley was keenly aware of contemporary scientific developments and incorporated them into Frankentstein. Monsters includes the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, which Shelly revised as an adult, respecting the artistic maturity ansd agency of the author. Mathilda, Shelley's second long work of fiction written between August 1819 and February 1820, deals with taboos that haunt our society to this day: incest and suicide. Published for the first time in 1959, it was becaome Shelley's best-known work after Frankenstein. The verision edited by Elizabeth Nitchie in 1959 is presented here."--Back cover