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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most influential and controversial novels of the nineteenth century; it is also one of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted. It has been vivisected critically by latter-day Victor Frankensteins who have transformed the meanings emergent from the novel into monsters of post-modern misconception.
Meanwhile Franken-feminists have turned the novel into a monster of misanthropy. Seldom has a work of fiction suffered so scandalously from the slings and arrows of outrageous criticism. This critical edition, containing tradition-oriented essays by literary scholars, refutes the errors and serves as an antidote to the poison that has contaminated the critical understanding of this classic gothic novel. Frankenstein Ignatius critical editions. Jo Bath is a research associate of the Open University in England, where she also teaches the history of medicine.
Philip Nielsen is a student in classical architecture at Notre Dame, and is currently authoring a book on the Inklings with Bradley Birzer of Hillsdale College.
He is a graduate of Hillsdale College with a degree in English. Ignatius Critical Editions brand new lower prices! Books by Author by last name, except for Wm.
Augustine of Hippo The Confessions. Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter.
John Henry Newman Loss and Gain. Romantic Poets Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge. Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels. Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most influential and controversial novels The Ignatius Critical Editions represent a tradition-oriented. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most influential and controversial novels of He is the editor of the St. Austin Review and the Ignatius Critical Editions.
It is something on which to marvel: Chesterton quotation that heads each book in the series:. Tradition may be defined as the extension of the franchise.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
This is to the previous reviewer C. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. The ban turns literally everything, including criticism, into an anti-discrimination thesis, whether or not such a view is even remotely related. Augustine of Hippo The Confessions. It has been vivisected critically by latter-day Victor Frankensteins who have transformed the meanings emergent from the novel into monsters of post-modern misconception. But this is a non-sequitur.
Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. I, at any rate, cannot separate the two ideas of democracy and tradition. Commentary as witty as it is learned.
It seems to me that literary criticism lost its reason to live when it became heir to the ubiquitous ban on discrimination a few decades back. To be forbidden to tell one thing from another eventually becomes an inability to do so. Thus did the human intellect suffer injury that may turn out to be permanent.