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Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons
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Frankenstein: Texts and Contexts
Suggested Reading on Automata and Mechanical Devices
Frankenstein: Texts and Contexts
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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
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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Suggested Reading on Automata and Mechanical Devices
Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age
by
James Essinger
Call Number: 510.92 .L68ess 2014
ISBN: 1612194575
Publication Date: 2015
Ada's Legacy: Cultures of Computing from the Victorian to the Digital Age
by
Robin Hammerman; Andrew L. Russell
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1970001518
Publication Date: 2015
Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life
by
Jessica Riskin (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0226720810
Publication Date: 2007
Machine Man and Other Writings
by
Ann Thomson (Editor); Julien Offray de La Mettrie, 1709-1751
Call Number: 194 .L26 1996
ISBN: 052147258X
Publication Date: 1996
The Mechanical Mind in History
by
Philip Husbands (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0262083779
Publication Date: 2008
My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves
by
Julie Wosk
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0813563372
Publication Date: 2015
The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick
by
Jessica Riskin
Call Number: 147 .R57 2016
ISBN: 022630292X
Publication Date: 2016-03-10
Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination
by
Minsoo Kang
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0674049357
Publication Date: 2011
The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
by
Tom Standage
Call Number: 794.17 .S73 2002
ISBN: 0802713912
Publication Date: 2002
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