Frankenstein: Texts and Contexts

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A hypertext version of the 1818 edition. Contains an extensive online collection of supplementary materials and criticism.

A collective reading and collaborative annotation experience of the original 1818 text of Frankenstein.

Provides both the original 1818 and revised 1831 editions in .html format. Includes study aids and texts that influenced the writing of 'Frankenstein'.

Complete online texts of both versions, with study aids.

Draft and fair copy manuscripts from Oxford's Bodleian Library.

Author Philip Ball writes that Frankenstein is more complicated than a story of science gone awry; that each era makes Frankenstein in its own image.

Published March, 1818.

A rich collection of primary sources, articles, themes, images, and works by British Romantic and Victorian authors.

Robinson discusses the history of the manuscripts.

Searchable database of 18th century texts in HTML.

A useful selection of criticism from scholarly studies on the novel. From the Pennsylvania Electronic Edition website.

Fiona Sampson, author of 'In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein', looks at the intellectual and social background of the novel.

This Kenyon University website examines the Yiddish legend of the Golem, an anthropomorphic figure made of clay or wood, and endowed with life by its creator.

By Stephanie Forward of the Open University (UK).

In this episode of "On Point", 'Frankenstein' is discussed by historian Jill Lepore; physics professor Sidney Perkowitz; and Ed Finn, editor of "'Frankenstein': Annotated for Scientists, Engineers and Creators of All Kinds."

Primary sources, images, and contextual essays on a wide range of topics surrounding 'Frankenstein'.

Fred V. Randel contends that the Bavarian setting of 'Frankenstein' is key to understanding its political dimensions.

Published in The Athenaeum Journal of Literature, Science and the Fine Arts, 10 November 1832: fourteen years after the initial publication of the novel.

Historian Jill Lepore examines the neglected birth and child-rearing aspects of the novel.

Ruth Franklin asks if Mary Shelley's experience of pregnancy lies at the heart of 'Frankenstein'.

This 2017 article by Josh was the first in a series of articles published on 'Frankenstein' in Slate. Provides links to the other articles.

Anne K. Mellor's feminist analysis of the female and the natural in 'Frankenstein'.