Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons: Frankenstein: Texts and Contexts: The Literary Response to the Year without a Summer

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).