Moraine Valley Educational Resources

Books

Frankenstein: Text and Criticism

• The Endurance of Frankenstein: essays on Mary Shelley's novel
  PR5397.F73 E5 

• Frankenstein
  Complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives
  PR5397.F7, 2000 (circulating)

• Frankenstein
  The 1818 Text, Contexts, Nineteenth-Century Responses, Modern Criticism
  PR5397.F73 M36, 1996 (circulating)

• Frankenstein, creation, and monstrosity
  PR5397.F73 F69, 1994 (circulating)

• Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's wedding guest
  PR5397.F73 L68 1993 

• Frankenstein: penetrating the secrets of nature
  PR5397.F73 F75, 2002 (circulating)

• In Frankenstein's shadow: myth, monstrosity and nineteenth-century writing
  PR5397.F73 B3, 1987 (circulating)

Mary Shelley: Biography and Influence

• Frankenstein's daughters: women writing science fiction
  PS374.S35 D66, 1997 (circulating)

• "Frankenstein: Mary Shelly."  In Novels for Students.
  REF PN3385.N68 (non circulating)

• Mary Shelley: a literary life
  PR5398 .W55, 2000 (circulating)

• A Mary Shelley encyclopedia
  REF PR5398.A2 M67, 2003 (non circulating)

• Mary Shelley in her times
  PR5398.M27, 2000 (circulating)

• Mary Shelley's fictions: from Frankenstein to Falkner
  PR5398.M29, 2000 (circulating)

• Women, science, and fiction: the Frankenstein inheritance
  PS374.S35 S48, 2000 (circulating)

Frankenstein: Adaptations

• The Frankenstein film sourcebook
  REF PN1995.9.F8 P53 2001  (non circulating)

• Remaking the Frankenstein myth and legend: between laughter and horror
  PN1995.9.F8 P54 2003 

Articles
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• Frankenstein and the reprobate's conscience [Jane Goodall]
  from Studies in the Novel, Spring 1999 v31 i1 p19
  Available only to those who have registered their current MVCC ID cards with the library.

• The 1831 Introduction and Revisions to Frankenstein: Mary Shelley Dictates Her Legacy [James O'Rourke] Studies in Romanticism v. 38 no3 (Fall 1999) p. 365-85. The writer discusses Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, focusing not on the 1818 text but on the 1831 Introduction and revisions.

• The corrected Frankenstein: twelve preferred readings in the last draft. [David Ketterer] English Language Notes v. 33 (Sept. 1995) p. 23-34.  Correcting the 1818 versions textual defects.

• Marketing Frankenstein: the Shelleys' enigmatic preface. [Regina B. Oost] English Language Notes v. 35 (Sept. 1997) p. 26-35.  It is argued that the preface to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was composed as a marketing device for the novel rather than an interpretative key.

• Periphrastic naming in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. [Bernard Duyfhuizen] Studies in the Novel v. 27 (Winter 1995) p. 477-92

• Wrapped in darkness: Hecate in chapter sixteen of Frankenstein. [Terry W.Thompson] English Language Notes v. 33 (Mar. 1996) p. 28-32

• Frankenstein: Myths of Scientific and Medical Knowledge and Stories of Human Relations [Steven Marcus] Southern Review; Winter2002, Vol. 38 Issue 1, p188, 14p

• Face, Figure, Physiognomics: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Moving Image [Scott J. Juengel] Novel v. 33 no3 (Summer 2000) p. 353-76

• Frankenstein and the reprobate's conscience [Jane Goodall]Studies in the Novel v. 31 no1 (Spring 1999) p. 19-43

• The Monsters We Create: Woman on the Edge of Time and Frankenstein [Marcia Bundy Seabury] Critique (Atlanta, Ga.) v. 42 no2 (Winter 2001) p. 131-43

• Prometheus the Modern Matricide: Justice and the Furies in Mary Shelly's 'Frankenstein' [Daniel M. Shea] from English Language Notes; Sep2001, Vol. 39 Issue 1, p41, 10p

• Shelley's Frankenstein [Terry W. Thompson] The Explicator v. 58 no1 (Fall 1999) p. 22-4