Moraine Valley Educational Resources

Books

• Essays in aesthetics
  N67 .S243 1970 (circulating)

• Forbidden knowledge: from Prometheus to pornography
  PN56.K64 S43 1996 

Films, Videos, DVDs

• Tough guise [video recording]: violence, media, and the crisis in masculinity
  BF692.5.T68, 1999 (circulating videocassette)

Articles
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• Frankenstein's monster and images of race in nineteenth-century Britain.

• The "paradise of the mothersons": 'Frankenstein' and 'The Empire of the Nairs.'

• A tradition of male poetics: Mary Shelly's 'Frankenstein' as an allegory of art.

• The monsters we create: Woman on the Edge of Time and Frankenstein.(Critical Essay)

• Not forgotten: Eliza Fenning, Frankenstein, and Victorian Chivalry.(literature and 19th-century perceptions of the nature of women)

• The Medical Gaze and the Female Corpse: Looking at Bodies in Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

• The Monster in a Dark Room:  Frankenstein, Feminism and Philosophy

• The Monstrous as the Paradigm of Modernity? Or Frankenstein, Myth of the Birth of the Contemporary

• Women Beware! The Appropriation of Women in Hollywood's Revisioning of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

• On the sublime and beautiful in Shelley's Frankenstein.

• A tradition of male poetics: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as an allegory of art.

• Coveting the feminine: Victor Frankenstein, Norman Bates, and Buffalo Bill.

• Mirror images and otherness in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

• "So Guided by a Silken Cord": Frankenstein's Family Values

• "Now misery has come home": sibling rivalry in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Two long-awaited film versions of horror stories--Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Interview with the Vampire--testify to the devastating results of humans' attempts to be gods.)

• Frankenstein (Poem)

   

• Situated knowledge: the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective
  (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/rt21/concepts/HARAWAY.html)

• What women want...in horror (PDF)
  (http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/pdf/women.pdf)

• Frankenstein: the art and legends
  (http://frankensteinweb.com)