Book ID: CBB503757588

Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds (2017)

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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (Author)
Guston, David H. (Editor)
Finn, Ed (Editor)
Robert, Jason Scott (Editor)


The MIT Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 320
Language: English

The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects.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 byElizabeth Bear, Cory Doctorow, Heather E. Douglas, Josephine Johnston, Kate MacCord, Jane Maienschein, Anne K. Mellor, Alfred Nordmann

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Review Jon Turney (2018) Review of "Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (pp. 41-43). unapi

Review A. David Wunsch (December 2018) Review of "Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds". IEEE Technology and Society Magazine (pp. 10-12). unapi

Review Richard C. Sha (2020) Review of "Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 183-186). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Emanuela Piga Bruni
Clarton, Jay
Smeele, Wietske
Teukolsky, Rachel
Friedman, Lester D.
Mueller, Eddy Von
Concepts
Science and literature
Science fiction
Science and culture
Frankenstein
Popular culture
Teratology; monsters
Time Periods
19th century
21st century
20th century
Modern
18th century
20th century, late
Places
Europe
United States
Scotland
Soviet Union
India
Great Britain
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