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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262340267
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262340267
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262340267
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262340267
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262340267
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262340267
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262340267
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262340267
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262340267
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262340267
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262340267
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262340267
The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects. The open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from Knowledge Unlatched. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author during a cold and rainy summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, the dramatic tale of Victor Frankenstein and his stitched-together creature can be read as the ultimate parable of scientific hubris. Victor, “the modern Prometheus,” tried to do what he perhaps should have left to Nature: create life. Although the novel is most often discussed in literary-historical terms—as a seminal example of romanticism or as a groundbreaking early work of science fiction—Mary Shelley was keenly aware of contemporary scientific developments and incorporated them into her story. In our era of synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and climate engineering, this edition of Frankenstein will resonate forcefully for readers with a background or interest in science and engineering, and anyone intrigued by the fundamental questions of creativity and responsibility. This edition of Frankenstein pairs the original 1818 version of the manuscript—meticulously line-edited and amended by Charles E. Robinson, one of the world's preeminent authorities on the text—with annotations and essays by leading scholars exploring the social and ethical aspects of scientific creativity raised by this remarkable story. The result is a unique and accessible edition of one of the most thought-provoking and influential novels ever written. Essays by Elizabeth Bear, Cory Doctorow, Heather E. Douglas, Josephine Johnston, Kate MacCord, Jane Maienschein, Anne K. Mellor, Alfred Nordmann
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262340267
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262340267
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262340267
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262340267
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262340267
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0018
EISBN: 9780262340267
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0019
EISBN: 9780262340267
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10815.003.0020
EISBN: 9780262340267