Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus: Home

Promotional photo of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster in the film Bride of Frankenstein (1935). Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons

This guide is designed to quickly connect student researchers to all materials available through the Gumberg Library on Mary Shelley's pioneering and perennially popular cautionary tale, Frankenstein. It will connect the researcher to reference works, print books and ebooks, databases for articles, dissertations, and good content from the Internet. This page will connect the user not just to literary resources, but resources in theology, philosophy, science, and medicine, since this novel has been used as a lens through which to examine ethical and other sorts of issues in all of these fields.

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All of these resources can be accessed from off-campus, but you will need to enter your Multipass username and password when you click on a link below.

• "Frankenstein," from Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism
• "Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley," from the Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
• "Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley," from British Romantic Novelists, 1789-1832 (Dictionary of Literary Biography)
• "Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley," from British Romantic Prose Writers, 1789-1829: 2nd Series (Dictionary of Literary Biography)
• "Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley," from British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers Before World War 1 (Dictionary of Literary Biography)
• "Prometheus and Pandora," from Bulfinch's Mythology

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On Mary Shelley & Frankenstein

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