Mount Holyoke College
History 257
Frankenstein Meets Multimedia:
A Cultural History of Mary Shelley's Novel
Robert Schwartz
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- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- A Frankenstein FAQ
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- http://www.watershed.winnipeg.mb.ca/Frankenstein.html
Keywords: Frankenstein FAQ, history.
- Ariadne's Cyber Loom - Classic Web Design - Home of Mary Shelley's
Private Frankenstein Musical
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- http://www.netaxs.com/~kwbridge/
Keywords: Ariadne Cyber Loom Classic Web Design Mary Shelley Private
Frankenstein Musical History
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley
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- http://virtual.park.USA.edu/~232/mws.html
Description: Mary Godwin's Remonstrance and excerpts from Godwin
1818 FRANKENSTEIN OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley. Here follows parts of the Preface written by Percy Bysshe
Shelley. Mary Shelley's account of the origins of the novel appeared
in the Preface to her revised 1831 edition (see the Norton critical
edition, pp. 163-179).
- PREFACE: THE event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed,
by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as
not of impossible occurrence. I shall not be supposed as according
the remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination; yet,
in assuming it as the basis of a work of fancy, I have not considered
myself as merely weaving a series of supernatural terrors. The event
on which the interest of the story depends is exempt from the disadvantages
of a mere tale of spectres or enchantment. It was by the novelty of
the situations which it develops; and, however impossible as a physical
fact, affords a point of view to the imagination for the delineating
of human passions more comprehensive and commanding than any which
the ordinary relations of existing events can yield. I have thus endeavoured
to preserve the truth of the elementary principles of human nature,
while I have not scrupled to innovate upon their combinations. The
Iliad, the tragic poetry of Greece- Shakespeare, in the Tempest/and
Midsummer Night's Dream- and most especially Milton, in Paradise Lost,
conform to this rule; and the most humble novelist, who seeks to confer
or receive amusement from his labours, may, without presumption, apply
to prose fiction a license, or rather a rule, from the adoption of
which so many exquisite combinations of human feeling have resulted
in the highest specimens of poetry. The circumstance on which my story
rests was suggested in casual conversation. It was commenced partly
as a source of amusement, and partly as an expedient for exercising
any untried resources of mind. Other motives were mingled with these
as the work proceeded. I am by no means indifferent to the manner
in which whatever moral tendencies exist in the sentiments or characters
it contains shall affect the reader; yet my chief concern in this
respect has been limited to avoiding the enervating effects of the
novels of the present day and to the exhibition of the amiableness
of domestic affection, and the excellence of universal virtue. The
opinions which naturally spring from the and situation of the hero
are by no means to be conceived as existing always in my own conviction;
nor is any inference justly to be drawn from the following pages as
prejudicing any philosophical doctrine of whatever kind. It is a subject
also of additional interest to the author that this story was begun
in the majestic region where the scene is principally laid, and in
society which cannot cease to be regretted. I passed the summer of
1816 in the environs of Geneva. The season was cold and rainy, and
in the evenings we crowded around a blazing wood fire, and occasionally
amused ourselves with some German stories of ghosts, which happened
to fall into our hands. These tales excited in us a playful desire
of imitation. Two other friends (a tale from the pen of one of whom
would be far more acceptable to the public than anything I can ever
hope to produce) and myself agreed to write each a story founded on
some supernatural occurrence. The weather, however, suddenly became
serene; and my two friends left me on a journey among the Alps, and
lost, in the magnificent scenes which they present, all memory of
their ghostly visions. The following tale is the only one which has
been completed. Marlow, September, 1817.
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, U Penn project
- http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~prp/archive/franken/
- Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus HTML 1818 ed.
- http://www.boutell.com/frankenstein/
Description: Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus http://www.boutell.com/frankenstein/
This introduction and all hypertext are Copyright (c) 1995 by M. L. Grant.
All images are Copyright (c) 1995 by Thadd Brophy. All rights reserved.
Boutell.Com, Inc.
- Electronic Texts From CCAT: Frankenstein,
or the Modern Prometheus, 1818 ed.
- http://www.vmedia.com/restricted/ira/data/sect14/list10.htm
Description: Link to Access:gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu:3333; here
is the 1818 text in plain text files by chapter.
- Shelley's Frankenstein
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- http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/english016/franken/franken.html
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Literary Sources
- http://www.netaxs.com/~kwbridge/franken.html
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- Mary Shelley
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- http://www.netaxs.com/~kwbridge/maryshel.html
- Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851)
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- http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/shelleym.htm
Description: Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851) [Kim Woodbridge] *note*
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus [text, University of Michigan];
1818 edition ?
- Gender, Family, and the Domestic Sphere
J. Schuetz: Mary Shelley's The Last Man -
- http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/4A/J.Schuetz.html
The New Child: British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood
- http://www.uampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/newchild/
Keywords: British art 18th century childhood
Notes: Excellent source of images on the theme of children, child development,
family. Good example of links to background material of interest. The
significance of the domestic sphere is well illustrated here. Note the
pictures of Joseph Wright of Derby for representation of philosophy and
science ca. 1760s. These are classic pictures expressing optimism in science
and progress.
- The family in Western Europe, c 1500-1914.. (biblio)
- http://indigo.stile.le.ac.uk/~sgj/STILE/t0000019.html
Keywords: family Western Europe bibliography
- Science
- WWWVL History of Science, Technology and Medicine - Overview
- http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/hstm_ove.htm
Keywords: WWWVL History Science Technology Medicine Overview
- Events In Science, Mathematics, and Technology - Version 3.0
- http://www.gsu.edu/other/timeline.html
Keywords: Events Science Mathematics Technology Version
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- Beginner's Guide: Table of Contents
- http://www.kaiwan.com/~lucknow/horus/guide/tc1.html
Keywords: Beginner Guide Table Contents Science History.
Internet Resources for Science and Mathematics Education
http://www.inform.umd.edu/UMS+State/UMD-projects/MCTP/Technology/History.html
Keywords: Internet Resources Science Mathematics Education
History of Science
http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/scied/scihist.html
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
- http://oli.lhc.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/oli
Keywords: Images History Medicine IHM.. Excellent source for historical
images.
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- Literary
and Historical Background
- VoS English Literature: Victorian
- http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-vict.html
Keywords: English Literature Victorian
Description: Voice of the Shuttle (UC Santa Barbara) for Victorian English
Literature. Excellent starting page for the 19th century: GENERAL RESOURCES
AUTHORS, WORKS, PROJECTS SELECTED SOCIAL ISSUES & WRITERS COURSE SYLLABI
& TEACHING RESOURCES (on English Courses page) CRITICISM & CRITICS
(GENERAL) (for criticism of specific authors, see appropriate sections)
JOURNALS LISTSERVS & NEWSGROUPS CONFERENCES & CALLS FOR PAPERS
- VoS English Literature: Romantics
- http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-rom.html
Keywords: VoS English Literature Romantics
- VoS English Literature: English Literature Page
- http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english.html
Keywords: VoS English Literature.
- VoS English Literature: 18th Century
- http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-18th.html
Keywords: VoS English Literature Century.
- Gothic Literature
- http://www.gasou.edu/aix2/English/gothic.htm
Keywords: gothic Literature
- Eighteenth-Century Studies
- http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/18th/
Keywords: Documents Novels plays memoirs treatises and poems of the
period are kept here in some cases influential texts from before 1700
or after 1800 as well
Description: Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period
are kept here (in some cases, influential texts from before 1700 or after
1800 as well), along with modern criticism. We also recommend Jack Lynch's
archive and the UCSB Voice of the Shuttle archive. Age of Enlightenment
in the Paintings of France's National Museums Amezquita, AlexRousseau
and Locke: The General Will (1992) Art, Architecture, Landscape Gardening
at Jack Lynch's Eighteenth-Century Resources on the Net Artists of the
18th Century: UC Berkely's exhibition and essay collection The New Child:
British Art & the Origins of Modern Childhood 1730-1830" (1995)
- Dictionary of Sensibility
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- http://www.engl.virginia.edu/~enec981/dictionary/g_intro.html
Keywords: Dictionary of Sensibility 18th century terms English
Description: This hypertext offers a new approach towards understanding
the language of eighteenth-century sensibility. It provides an atmospheric
view of the multiple connotations of the terms of that language. Rather
than attempting strict definitions, this project offers a tool for
recognizing the multivalence of such words as "virtue,"
"enthusiasm," and "community." Our hypertext collects
excerpts from primary texts of sensibility and scatters them among
twenty four key terms. We imagine the sensible reader exploring these
passages to understand the different vocabularies of the period.
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- Philosophers and Poets
- Sources of Inspiration for Mary Shelley
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- http://www.netaxs.com/~kwbridge/inspirat.html
Keywords: Sources Inspiration Mary Shelley
Description: Link to John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Wordsworth
- Wordsworth, William. 1888. Complete Poetical Works
- http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/wordsworth/index.html
Keywords: Wordsworth Complete Poetical Works Texts
- TCG's Wordsworth Page
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- http://www.usd.edu/~tgannon/words.html
Keywords: TCG Wordsworth's page
- Rousseau
- Rousseau - worship of nature
- http://members.aol.com/Heraklit1/rousseau.htm
Keywords: Rousseau worship nature
- Philosophers : Rousseau
- http://www.trincoll.edu/~phil/philo/phils/rousseau.html
Keywords: Philosophers Rousseau
- Modern Political Theorists Machiavelli to Rousseau
- http://swift.eng.ox.ac.uk/jdr/moder1.html
Keywords: Modern Political Theorists Machiavelli Rousseau
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
- http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/rouss.htm
Keywords: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- ILTweb: Study Place: Rousseau, Jean Jacques
- http://daemon.ilt.columbia.edu/academic/digitexts/rousseau/bio_rousseau.html
Keywords: ILTweb Study Place Rousseau Jean Jacques
Texts by Rousseau - http://un2sg1.unige.ch/www/athena/html/swissaut.html
Keywords: Documents ROUSSEAU Jean-Jacques: Discourse on Inequality
2nd part text in English at VT WSU
- Locke
- Search John Locke's An Essay concerning Human Understanding
- http://www.arts.cuhk.hk/Philosophy/Locke/echu/search.html
Keywords: Search John Locke Essay concerning Human Understanding.
- John Locke
- http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/religion/locke1.html
Keywords: John Locke.
- John Locke
- http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/users/cstahmer/cogsci/locke.html
Keywords: John Locke.
- ILTweb: Study Place: John Locke
- http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/academic/digitexts/locke/bio_JL.html
Keywords: ILTweb Study Place John Locke.
- Early Modern Europe: Philosophy
- http://history.hanover.edu/early/philosop.htm
Keywords: Early Modern Europe Philosophy Locke Rousseau Smith
Hume
Description: Short sketches with links to texts and sites on Bacon,
Locke, Rousseau, Smith, et al. From Hanover College.
Miscellaneous
- Directory of Web Sites Image Banks
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- http://media.macm.qc.ca/banquima.htm
Keywords: images art imagebases films National Gallery
Description: Links to image collections and image banks, including
the French postcard collection
British Romanticism - http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/images/contents.gif
Keywords: romanticism Shelley's at Chamonix.
Description: texts, gothic, contexts, geography, bookmarks: valuable introduction,
is advertised to appear on a CD: British Romanticism on CD