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Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons
Research Guides
Frankenstein: Texts and Contexts
Suggested Reading on Child-rearing in the 18th Century
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
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
Childhood and Violence in the Western Tradition
by
Laurence Brockliss; Heather Montgomery
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1842179780
Publication Date: 2010
Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-Century England: Literature, Representation, and the NSPCC
by
Monica Flegel
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0754664562
Publication Date: 2009
The Making of the Modern Child: Children's Literature in the Late Eighteenth Century
by
Andrew O'Malley
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0415514681
Publication Date: 2012
Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in "Frankenstein"
by
Eileen Hunt Botting
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0812249623
Publication Date: 2017
Monstrous Motherhood: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Ideology of Domesticity
by
Marilyn Francus
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 142140737X
Publication Date: 2012
The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster
by
Julia V. Douthwaite
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780226160573
Publication Date: 2010
Women's Education in Early Modern Europe: A History, 1500 to 1800
by
Barbara Whitehead (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 113898728X
Publication Date: 2015
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