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Frankenstein: Texts and Contexts
Mary Shelley and her Circle
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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
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
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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
Mary Shelley (1797-1851) Resources
British Library: Mary Shelley
A brief biographical sketch that serves as a portal to books, images, and related materials.
Mary Shelley's Reading
Lists of books known to have been read by Mary Shelley and/or Percy Shelley; arranged alphabetically, chronologically, and by publication date.
Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship
Chapter 2 of 'My Hideous Progeny' by Katherine C. Hill-Miller.
NYPL: Frankenstein, The Afterlife of Shelley's Circle
Primary sources, images, and contextual essays on a wide range of topics surrounding Frankenstein.
Shelley-Godwin Archive
Digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft.
Suggested Reading
England's First Family of Writers: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley
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Julie A. Carlson
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 080188618X
Publication Date: 2007
Mary Shelley in Her Times
by
Betty T. Bennett (Editor); Stuart Curran (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0801863341
Publication Date: 2000
Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives
by
Helen M. Buss (Editor); D. L. MacDonald (Editor); Anne McWhir (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0889203644
Publication Date: 2001
The Other Mary Shelley
by
Anne K. Mellor (Editor); Esther H. Schor (Editor); Audrey Fisch (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0195077407
Publication Date: 1993
Women, Gender, and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Temma Berg (Editor); Sonia Kane (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1611461413
Publication Date: 2013
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