This new publication from The MIT Press strives to change this, by directly applying Shelley’s classical text to the modern, scientific world. Yet despite its clear relevance to science and engineering, the study of Frankenstein has often been left solely to students of the arts and humanities. Over the years Shelley’s text has become standard comparison for every scientific attempt to harness the power of nature, be it in the form genetic engineering, stem cell cloning, or even the creation of artificial intelligence. From its origins as a ghost story written by an intelligent yet rebellious teenage girl on the shores of Lake Geneva almost 200 years ago, the book has gone on to become a defining pillar of English literature, one which has much to say about the way we as humans imagine science and its moral, societal and technological consequences. There are some books which, regardless of their age, continue to resonate with audiences, and of none is this so true as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Guston (Editor), Ed Finn (Editor), Jason Scott Robert (Editor), & Charles E.Edited by David H Guston, Ed Finn and Jason Scott Robert Mellor, Alfred Nordmannīy Mary Shelley (Author), David H. Douglas, Josephine Johnston, Kate MacCord, Jane Maienschein, Anne K.
The result is a unique and accessible edition of one of the most thought-provoking and influential novels ever written.Įssays by Elizabeth Bear, Cory Doctorow, Heather 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. This edition of Frankenstein pairs the original 1818 version of the manuscript―meticulously line-edited and amended by Charles E. 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. Victor, “the modern Prometheus,” tried to do what he perhaps should have left to Nature: create life.Īlthough 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. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years.īegun 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.
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