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Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons
Research Guides
Frankenstein: Texts and Contexts
The Mad Scientist in Literature
Frankenstein: Texts and Contexts
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Library Resources
Frankenstein: Texts and Resources
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Background Literature
Suggested Reading on the Romantic Age
Mary Shelley and her Circle
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Parents: William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft
Husband: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Friend: Lord Byron
1816: The Year without a Summer
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The Literary Response to the Year without a Summer
Food Scarcity and Bread Riots
Suggested Reading on Food Scarcity and Bread Riots
Internet Resources on the 18th Century
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Online Reference Resources
Arctic Exploration
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Suggested Reading on Arctic Exploration
Automata & Phantasmagoria
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Suggested Reading on Automata and Mechanical Devices
Creation, Resurrection, and Life
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Suggested Reading on Life
Electricity: Franklin, Galvani, & Priestley
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Suggested Reading on Franklin and Galvani
'Frankenstein' on Film
The Idea of Monstrosity
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Suggested Reading on the Idea of Monstrosity
The Mad Scientist in Literature
Medical Education and Dissection
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Suggested Reading on 18th Century Medicine
Bodysnatching
Tyburn: Execution and Dissection
Radical Politics
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Suggested Reading on Radical Politics
Women & Children in the Long 18th Century
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Suggested Reading on Women in the 18th Century
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Suggested Reading on Pregnancy & Childbirth
Child-rearing
Suggested Reading on Child-rearing in the 18th Century
Posthumanism/Transhumanism and Xenofeminism
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E-books on Post/Transhumanism
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The Mad Scientist in Literature
Christopher Marlowe: "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus"
H.G. Wells: "The Island of Dr. Moreau"
Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Rappacini's Daughter"
Nathaniel Hawthorne: "The Birth-Mark"
Robert Louis Stevenson: "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde"
Suggested Reading
Mad Scientist, Impossible Human
by
Andrew Bartlett
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1934542350
Publication Date: 2014
Mysterious Medicine: The Doctor-Scientist Tales of Hawthorne and Poe
by
L. Kerr Dunn (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1606352725
Publication Date: 2016
Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology
by
Daniel Dinello
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0292709862
Publication Date: 2006
Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic
by
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0708322239
Publication Date: 2010
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