Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature-- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism-- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an indexThe Pattern: Frankenstein and Austen to Conrad / George Levine --Frankenstein: Creation as Catastrophe / Paul Sherwin --My Monster/My Self / Barbara Johnson --Frankenstein's Fallen Angel / Joyce Carol Oates --"My Hideous Progeny": The Lady and the Monster / Mary Poovey --The Negative Oedipus: Father, Frankenstein, and the Shelleys / William Veeder --Bearing Demons: Frankenstein's Circumvention of the Maternal / Margaret Homans.