An edition of Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818)

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An edition of Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818)

Frankenstein

annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds

by

  • ★★★ ★ 4.0 (218 ratings)
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  • 158 Currently reading
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This new critical edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was developed by leading scholars for aspiring scientists, engineers, and medical professionals. This unique framing will make this a core text in promoting and enhancing interdisciplinary dialogue on the nature, roles, and responsibilities of scientists and engineers in society. To be published in time for the 2018 bicentennial of its original publication, this edition will be produced in print and as an enhanced e-book. The e-book will contain the full text of the novel (in the public domain) plus all of the substantial scholarly material that was commissioned and developed for this new edition, including essays by leading scholars, and will be most valuable to students and teachers of ethics. Digital features will include include reader annotation, bookmarking, and multimedia content. -- Provided by publisher.

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The MIT Press
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English
Pages
277

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Frankenstein: annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds
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Frankenstein (with an Introduction by Sir Walter Scott)
2015, Neeland Media LLC
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Frankenstein
2012, Greenbrier
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Frankenstein
September 2007, Stone Arch Books
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Frankenstein o El moderno Prometeo
1994, Edicomunicación
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The annotated Frankenstein
1977, C. N. Potter : distributed by Crown Publishers, Clarkson N. Potter, C.N. Potter, Distributed by Crown Publishers
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Frankenstein (or, the Modern Prometheus)
1974-01-01, Laurel-Leaf Library (Dell
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Table of Contents

Introduction / by Charles E. Robinson
Frankenstein, or, the modern Prometheus. Volume I
Volume II
Volume III
Introduction to Frankenstein (1831)
Chronology of science and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Essays. Traumatic responsibility : Victor Frankenstein as creator and casualty / by Josephine Johnston
I've created a monster? (and so can you) / by Cory Doctorow
Changing conceptions of human nature / by Jane Maienschein and Kate MacCord
Undisturbed by reality : Victor Frankenstein's technoscientific dream of reason / by Alfred Nordmann
Frankenstein reframed; or, the trouble with Prometheus / by Elizabeth Bear
Frandenstein, gender, and mother nature / by Anne K. Mellor
The bitter aftertaste of technical sweetness / by Heather E. Douglas.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261)

Corrected 1818 text of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Published in
Cambridge, USA
Other Titles
Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus, Modern Prometheus

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.7
Library of Congress
PR5397 .F7 2017, PR5397.F7 2017

Contributors

Introduction
Charles E. Robinson

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxxv, 277 pages
Number of pages
277
Dimensions
9 x 6.5 x inches
Weight
492 grams

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26949080M
ISBN 10
0262533286
ISBN 13
9780262533287
LCCN
2016041014
OCLC/WorldCat
958796621

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL450063W
Wikidata
Q150827
BookBrainz
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MusicBrainz
6006b489-47b9-49ba-b11f-236fe423d64e
LibraryThing
8294, 13203134
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
9795, 2927367, 2870926

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Work Description

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.

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