New to this edition is a discussion of Percy Shelleyâs role in contributing to the first draft of the novel. Recent scholarship has provoked considerable interest in the degree to which Percy Shelley contributed to Mary Shelleyâs original text, and this editionâs updated introduction discusses this scholarship. A new appendix also includes Lord Byronâs âA Fragmentâ and John William Polidoriâs The Vampyre, works that are engaging in their own right and that also add further insights into the literary context of Frankenstein.
The late D.L. Macdonald was Professor of English at the University of Calgary. Kathleen Scherf is Professor of Communications at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia. They co-edited the Broadview Editions of Mary Wollstonecraftâs The Vindications, Matthew Gregory Lewisâs The Monk, and John Polidoriâs The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold.