Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

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Resources:

• Brief biography of Mary Shelley from biography.com

• Frankenstein from The British Library

• "10 Surprising Facts About Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" by Joy Lanzendorfer for Mental Floss 

• "Eight things you need to know about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein" from The Conversation

• VIDEO: "Don't Reanimate Corpses! Frankenstein, Part 1" from CrashCourse via YouTube

• VIDEO: "Frankenstein, Part 2" from CrashCourse via YouTube

• PODCAST: Close Reads: "Frankenstein"

• PODCAST: Examining Ethics Podcast: "Frankenstein and His Creation: Who’s the Real Monster?"

• PODCAST: In Our Time: "Frankenstein" from BBC Radio

• PODCAST: Library Talks: "Frankenstein: Our Dark Mirror, Ep. 256" from NYPL

• "Teaching ‘Frankenstein’ With The New York Times" by Caroline Crosson Gilpin for The New York Times

Online Articles:

• "Frankenstein at 200" by Jennifer Schuessler for The New York Times

• "Frankenstein at 200 – why hasn't Mary Shelley been given the respect she deserves?" by Fiona Sampson for The Guardian

• "Frankenstein Turns 200 and Becomes Required Reading for Scientists" by Sidney Perkowitz for Los Angeles Review of Books

• "Read Percy Shelley’s review of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein" from Literary Hub

• "The Horror Story that Haunts Science" by Jon Cohen for Science

• "The Strange and Twisted Life of 'Frankenstein'" by Jill Lepore for The New Yorker

Critical Articles:

• "Frankenstein: Creation as Catastrophe" - Paul Sherwin

• "Looking at the Monster: Frankenstein and Film" - James A. W. Heffernan

• "Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Spectacle of Masculinity" - Bette London

• "Novelistic Sympathy in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" - Jeanne M. Britton

• "Teaching the Monster: Frankenstein and Critical Thinking" - Melissa Bloom Bissonette