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A review by mafiabadgers
Frankenstein (Second Norton Critical Edition) by Mary Shelley
Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.
Hang on, you can't DNF a book and still give it a review? That's seems stupid.
Anyway, more than two-thirds of this edition is essays and articles about Frankenstein. Some are good (notably William St. Clair's 'Frankenstein's Impact' and Ellen Moers' 'Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother'), some are bad, and I don't have time to read the rest. Would have been much better if the essays of the Context section had been mashed together and pared down into a thirty or forty page introduction, so that readers could go into the book primed with a more thorough knowledge of Shelley's family, circumstances of composition, and the overbearing philosophical and political points of the day (these were all touched on in the existing introduction, but I would have liked more).
Anyway, more than two-thirds of this edition is essays and articles about Frankenstein. Some are good (notably William St. Clair's 'Frankenstein's Impact' and Ellen Moers' 'Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother'), some are bad, and I don't have time to read the rest. Would have been much better if the essays of the Context section had been mashed together and pared down into a thirty or forty page introduction, so that readers could go into the book primed with a more thorough knowledge of Shelley's family, circumstances of composition, and the overbearing philosophical and political points of the day (these were all touched on in the existing introduction, but I would have liked more).