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Frankenstein, or, the modern Prometheus : annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds
- Title
- Frankenstein, or, the modern Prometheus : annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds / Mary Shelley ; edited by David H. Guston, Ed Finn, and Jason Scott Robert ; managing editors, Joey Eschrich and Mary Drago.
- Author
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
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- Description
- xxxv, 277 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character)
- Science fiction
- Fiction
- Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) > Fiction
- Horror fiction
- Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character) > Fiction
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 > Frankenstein
- Science in literature
- Monsters > Fiction
- Scientists > Fiction
- Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft)
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Horror fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-3496
- ISBN
- 9780262533287
- 0262533286
- LCCN
- 2016041014
- 99975059838
- OCLC
- 958796621
- Author
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851, author.
- Title
- Frankenstein, or, the modern Prometheus : annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds / Mary Shelley ; edited by David H. Guston, Ed Finn, and Jason Scott Robert ; managing editors, Joey Eschrich and Mary Drago.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Guston, David H., editor.Finn, Ed, 1980- editor.Robert, Jason Scott, editor.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 99975059838
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-3496