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Frankenstein: Texts and Contexts
Husband: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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
Husband: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Percy B. Shelley: "England in 1819"
An attack on the corrupt leaders of his day.
Percy B. Shelley: "Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts" (1820)
Prometheus, punished for bringing fire to the human race, is released from his tortures when Jupiter's supporters desert him.
Percy Bysshe Shelley: "The Mask of Anarchy: Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester"
Shelley's outraged reaction to the Peterloo Massacre was not published until 1834.
Percy Shelley: "A Defence of Poetry"
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
Percy Shelley: "Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni"
His poem evoking the awful nature of the romantic sublime.
Poetry Foundation: Percy Bysshe Shelley
An extensive biographical essay on Shelley's life and writings.
Selected Prose Works (1915)
Includes the revised and expanded 1813 version of "The Necessity of Atheism."
The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. 2 vols. (1914)
Suggested Reading
The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. I
by
Percy Bysshe Shelley; Donald H. Reiman; Neil Fraistat; Nora Crook; David Brookshire (Editor); Stuart Curran (Editor); Michael J. Neth (Editor); Michael O'Neill (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1421401363
Publication Date: 2012
The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. II
by
Donald H. Reiman (Editor); Neil Fraistat (Editor); Percy Bysshe Shelley
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0801878748
Publication Date: 2004
The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. III
by
Donald H. Reiman (Editor); Neil Fraistat (Editor); Percy Bysshe Shelley
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1421401363
Publication Date: 2004
Shelley and His Readers
by
Kim Wheatley
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0826212212
Publication Date: 1999
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