Berthold Schoene-harwood

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein: Essays - Articles - Reviews Berthold Schoene-harwood

Jacket Description/Back: At last available in a single volume: comprehensive overviews and concise analyses of the key critical texts and approaches to the most-studied works of literature. By assembling extracts from essays, reviews, and articles, the columbia critical guides provide students with ready access to the most important secondary writings on one or more texts by a given writer.each volume: -- Offers a balanced and nuanced approach to criticism, drawing on a wide array of British and American sources -- Explains criticism in terms of key approaches, allowing students to grasp the central issues for each work -- Is edited by a noted scholar who specializes in the writer or work in question -- Includes notes and a comprehensive bibliography and index. Mary Shelley's first novel has established itself as one of modernity's most compelling and ominous myths. frankenstein poignantly captures the spirit of the early 1800s as an age of transition tragically divided between scientific progress and religious conservatism, revolutionary reform and conformist reaction. This guide encapsulates the most important critical reactions to a novel that straddles the realms of both "high" literature and popular culture. The selections shed light on frankenstein's historical and sociopolitical relevance, its innovative representations of science, gender, and identity, as well as its problematic cultural location between academic critique and creative production. Ranging from the first reviews in 1818 to postmodern readings of the mid-1990s, the guide illuminates one of British literature's most spectacular novels. Biographical Note: Berthold Schoene-Harwood teaches at Liverpool John Moores University. Table of Contents: Introduction1. "It's Alive: " The Reception and Endurance of Frankenstein2. Giving Form to Dark, Shapeless Substances: Intertextuality and Ambivalence in Frankenstein3. A Dream that Haunts Literature: Consciousness, Authority, and Signification in Frankenstein4. Whose Body Does the Text Display?: Representations of Gender in Frankenstein5. Pregnant with an Idea: Discourses of Monstrosity in Frankenstein6. "I'll Be Back!": Reproducing FrankensteinNotesSelect BibliographyAcknowledgementsIndexMarc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index; First pub. in UK by Icon Books; Cloth avail. @ $39.95. Publisher Marketing: Mary Shelley's first novel has established itself as one of modernity's most compelling and ominous myths. Frankenstein poignantly captures the spirit of the early 1800s as an age of transition tragically divided between scientific progress and religious conservatism, revolutionary reform and conformist reaction. This Guide encapsulates the most important critical reactions to a novel that straddles the realms of both high literature and popular culture. The selections shed light on Frankenstein's historical and socio-political relevance, its innovative representations of science, gender, and identity, as well as its problematic cultural location between academic critique and creative production. Ranging from the first reviews in 1818 to postmodern readings of the mid-1990s, the Guide illuminates one of British literature's most spectacular novels.

Contributor Bio:  Schoene-Harwood, Berthold Berthold Schoene-Harwood teaches at Liverpool John Moores University.