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Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons
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Frankenstein: Texts and Contexts
1816: The Year without a Summer
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
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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Online Resources on the Tambora Eruption of 1815
1816: “The Mighty Operations of Nature”: An Environmental History of "The Year Without a Summer"
A 2012 University of Oregon Master's thesis by Michael Sean Munger.
After Tambora
An illustrated article from The Economist Magazine, 11 April 2015.
Characterization of Pyroclastic Fall and Flow Deposits from the 1815 Eruption of Tambora Volcano, Indonesia Ssing Ground-Penetrating Radar
This article examines the depth and stratigraphy of volcanic material deposited by Mount Tambora in 1815.
Climate of the Past (Online Journal)
An open-access journal of the European Geosciences Union.
Cold Decade (AD 1810–1819) Caused by Tambora (1815) and Another (1809) Stratospheric Volcanic Eruption
Presents research that an 1809 volcanic eruption in the tropics contributed to the "Year Without a Summer".
Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death
An article on the "year without a summer" in Connecticut.
The Environmental Impact of an 1815 Tambora-style Eruption in 2015 (Video)
Lecturer Jessica Kandlbauer is an AXA Research Fellow at the University of Bristol (UK).
Extreme Climate, Not Extreme Weather: The Summer of 1816 in Geneva, Switzerland
A 2012 article, published in Climate of the Past.
Harington, C.R., ed.: The Year Without a Summer?: World Climate in 1816
A collection of scientific articles.
Insights from Past Millennia into Climatic Impacts on Human Health and Survival
Shows how past climate disruptions have destabilized societies through food shortages, hunger, disease, and political upheaval.
Old Masters, New Climate Lessons?
How scientists are analyzing old paintings for information on atmospheric pollutants.
Reports on the Diseases of London, and the State of the Weather, from 1804 to 1816
Studies on the relationship between weather and disease by Thomas Bateman (1778-1821) of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Super-eruptions: Global Threats and Future Effects
This report from the London Geological Society looks at the most explosive volcanoes Earth, and the climatic effects produced by them.
Tambora and the "Year Without a Summer" of 1816
An illustrated conference publication from the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research.
Tambora Erupts in 1815 and Changes World History
An excerpt from The Year without Summer, a book by William K. Klingaman and Nicholas P. Klingaman (2013).
The Tambora Project: An Atmospheric Simulation and Historical Evaluation of the Mount Tambora Eruption and its Impacts on Global Climate and Society (1815-18)
A 2013 University of Illinois M.S. degree thesis by Darien M Ciuro Sanchez.
Volcanic Eruptions Recorded in the Illimani Ice Core (Bolivia): 1918–1998 and Tambora Periods
This 2003 article examines the chemical traces of the 1815 Tambora eruption that are found in ice cores.
A Volcanic Eruption That Reverberates 200 Years Later
A New York Times article by William Broad (Aug. 24, 2015).
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