Frankenstein Texts and Allusions by Jack Lynch at Rutgers University-Newark, formerly graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania: an extensive resource with links to many of the other texts mentioned within Mary Shelley's novel as well as biographies, critical commentaries, illustrations, and maps. This site is fun to explore as well as useful for scholars.

Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature from the National Library of Medicine-National Institute of Health Exhibition, 1997-1998. "The Birth of Frankenstein" offers a brief history of the medical as well as the personal concerns of the author and her times: "In March 1815, Mary Shelley dreamed of her dead infant daughter held before a fire, rubbed vigorously, and restored to life. At the time, scientists would not have wholly dismissed such a possibility. Could the dead be brought back to life? Could life arise spontaneously from inorganic matter? Physicians of the day treated such questions seriously--as the treatises they wrote, the methods they employed, and the contrivances they built all testify."

Frankenstein complete 1831 text from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia (may require educational password/proxy)

Frankenstein on Stage and in Film

• Internet Movie Database listing: 80 versions of Frankenstein
• Monsters on Film at Creepy Classics including Thomas Edison's 1910 Frankenstein packaged with Nosferatu
• Frankenstein Castle: extensive listing of films, performances, comics, and other offspring collected by Andreas Rohrmoser
• Frankenstein, play by Victor Gialanella, produced on Broadway, January 1981, and at University of British Columbia, November 2000

Related and Peripheral Sites Mary Wollestonecraft Shelley at Romantic Circles is a searchable scholarly site that includes a chronology, bibliography, and reviews of Frankenstein and other Shelley works Voice of the Shuttle is an extensive searchable scholarly resource for the humanities, including texts and criticism of Mary and Percy Shelley and their circle. "Prometheus" and "Prometheus Unbound" (excerpt) by George Gordon, Lord Byron, at University of Toronto Press Encyclopedia Mythica allows you to search for Prometheus

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