Frankenstein's Dream
by Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher: University of Maryland 2003
Description:
This collection offers five outstanding Romanticists focusing on the nightmarish sleep into which Victor Frankenstein falls after seeing his creature take its first breaths in Mary Shelley's original novel of 1818. These essays deal with several rarely explored aspects or echoes of Frankenstein's dream.
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