Frankenstein Editor's Preface and Author's 1818 Preface & 1831 Introduction

** Homework Questions **
vii:

• Who is Frankenstein?
• When was Frankenstein written?
• Why was it written?

x:

• Why did early critics assume Frankenstein was written by a man?

5:

• According to the Preface, what is the author's chief concern in writing Frankenstein?

169:

• Why did Mary Shelley have reservations about writing an Introduction to Frankenstein?  Why did she decide to do it?

171:

• Explain:  "Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos" (171).