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Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons
Research Guides
Frankenstein: Texts and Contexts
The Literary Response to the Year without a Summer
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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
The Literary Response to the Year without a Summer
"Darkness" by Lord Byron (1816)
The text of the poem.
'Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus' (1818)
The texts of the 1818 and 1831 editions.
'The Vampyre' by John William Polidori (1819)
A digital version of the first edition.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and the Villa Diodati
Describes the circumstances surrounding the novel's creation.
Percy Bysshe Shelly: "Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni" (1816)
Shelley's poem of the Romantic sublime. Its setting may have served as the inspiration for the arctic in 'Frankenstein.'
The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire
The story behind the writing of John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' (1816).
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