Cover -- Copyright and Licence -- Title Page -- A Note on the Author -- Contents -- Part 1: Life, Times, Contexts and Themes -- 1.1 Biography and Literary Career -- 1.2 The Author's Literary Strategy -- 1.3 The 1818 text and the 1831 text: the differences -- 1.4 Literary Context -- 1.5 The Cult of Sensibility -- 1.6 The Jacobin novel -- 1.7 The Gothic Novel -- 1.8 William Godwin -- 1.9 Paradise Lost -- 1.10 Prometheus and Pygmalion -- 1.11 Historical and Socio-Political Context -- Part 2. The Three Narratives -- 2.1 The Letters -- 2.2 Victor Frankenstein -- 2.3 The Creature -- 2.4 Female Characters -- Part 3: Critical Responses -- Annotated Bibliography of Further Reading -- Appendices: Hyperlinked Material.