Romantic Pedagogies Online

Editor: Laura Mandell

Resources for teaching Mary Shelley's Frankenstein available at Romantic Circles

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.
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.
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.
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: click on image to enlarge
Presumption, or the Fate of Frankenstein	Richard Brinsley Peake's 1823 dramatic rendition of Frankenstein, edited by Stephen Behrendt, is available on Romantic Circles.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Chronology and Resource Site	by Shannon Lawson.
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.
Adaptations	Responses to and adaptations of Frankenstein in film and elsewhere, a Romantic Circles Scholarly Resource compiled by Melissa J. Sites.
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.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	A graduate seminar designed by Harriet Kramer Linkin. See other syllabi for Romanticism courses as well.