| Frankenstein's
Dream, ed. Jerrold Hogle |
A collection of essays by five outstanding Romanticists
focusing on the nightmarish sleep into which Victor Frankenstein
falls after seeing his creature take its first breaths in Mary Shelley's
original novel of 1818. |
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| FrankenMOO |
A simple replication of most of the physical spaces
of the novel. Students create advanced interactive MOO rooms and
objects that interpret select spaces or events. |
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| Tour the FrankenMOO |
by logging onto the Villa
Diodati MOO as a guest ("Guest" userid; blank password). The
Guestroom at which you will enter provides instructions on how to
request a MOO users account. Click on Maison Chapuis,
then The Shelley Library, then FrankenMOO
to begin your explorations. OR type "@go #729" (without quotation
marks) to get there directly once you have logged on. |
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| Or read the FrankenMOO
Introduction |
about the site and its pedagogical uses by Ron Broglio
and Eric Sonstroem. |
FrankenMOO contains little gems like this picture
of "galvanism," and provides a
place for scholars to leave little gems as well:
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| Presumption,
or the Fate of Frankenstein |
Richard Brinsley Peake's 1823 dramatic rendition
of Frankenstein, edited by Stephen Behrendt, is available
on Romantic Circles. |
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| Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley Chronology and Resource Site |
edited by Shannon Lawson. |
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| Responses |
As part of the Chronology Resource, Shannon Lawson
has included contemporary reviews of the novel so that students
can see for themselves its reception when first published. |
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| Adaptations |
Responses to and adaptations of Frankenstein
in film and elsewhere, as part of Fictional Representations of
Romantics, a Romantic
Circles Scholarly Resource, compiled by Melissa J. Sites. |
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| Current Editions |
Check the Romantic
Circles Reviews site for reviews of current editions, including
the Longman Cultural Edition (ed. Susan Wolfson) and New Riverside
Edition (Judith Wilt) (forthcoming), as well as for reviews of critical
essays and apparatus: see in particular the Review
of Charles Robinson, ed., The Frankenstein Notebooks. |
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| Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein |
A graduate seminar designed by Harriet Kramer Linkin.
See other syllabi for Romanticism
courses as well. |
Romantic
Circles / Pedagogies
/ Teaching with Romantic Circles /
Teaching with Frankenstein
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