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Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons
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HUMN 4325 - FROZEN! The Climate Crisis of 1816 and Its Lessons for Today
The Literary Response to "The Year Without a Summer"
HUMN 4325 - FROZEN! The Climate Crisis of 1816 and Its Lessons for Today
Syllabus
Types of Sources
How to Evaluate Sources
How to Cite Sources
Library Resources
Non-Library Resources
Tambora Eruption of 1815
British Exploration of the North Pole & Role of Barrow
The Effects of Tambora in China
Erie Canal
History of Weather Instrumentation
Ice Cores as Proxy Data
James Hutton & William Smith - History of Geology
Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
The Literary Response to "The Year Without a Summer"
Luke Howard & Scientific Meteorology
Tree Rings as Proxy Data
Unknown Volcanic Eruption of 1808-1809
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Literary Response to the Tambora Eruption
"Darkness" by Lord Byron (1816)
The text of the poem.
'The Vampyre' by John William Polidori (1819)
A digital version of the first edition.
'Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus' (1818)
The texts of the 1818 and 1831 editions.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and the Villa Diodati
Describes the circumstances surrounding the novel's creation.
The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire
The story behind the writing of John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' (1816).
Suggested Reading
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, Contexts, Nineteenth-century Responses, Modern Criticism
by
Mary Shelley; J. Paul Hunter (Editor)
Call Number: Shelley Fiction
ISBN: 0393964582
Publication Date: 1995
Reading the Vampire
by
Ken Gelder
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0415080134
Publication Date: 1994
The Spiritual History of Ice
by
Eric G. Wilson; Eric Wilson
Call Number: On order
ISBN: 0312292996
Publication Date: 2003
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