Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
by Mary Shelley,
edited by David H. Guston,
Ed Finn, and Jason Scott Robert.
MIT Press, 277 pp., $19.95 (paper)
The New Annotated Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley,
edited and with a foreword
and notes by Leslie S. Klinger.
Liveright, 352 pp. $35.00
1. “And now, once again,” wrote Mary Shelley in her introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, “I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper.” It has certainly done so, but in ways, and for reasons, she could never have foreseen. Currently there are more than sixty million Google results for a search of the name “Frankenstein,” more than for Shakespeare’s Macbeth. There have been more than three hundred…