Compositions from Shelley's Prometheus unbound

This chapter readsQueen Mab, Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things and the Esdaile Notebook as representative of the range and ambition of Shelley’s early poetry. Explorin...

The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects. Mary Shelley's Fran...

The editors provide a brief chronology of important dates in the history of science in the context of Mary Shelley’s life and important aspects of the novel....

“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?” Frankenstein or “The Modern Prometheus” is the first novel penned by Mary Shelley at th...

How the monsters of nineteenth-century literature and science came to define us. “Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all m...

The Ghost Dance Movements of 1868-72 and 1888-91 have fascinated historians, sociologists, and anthropologists since the time they first occurred. Embraced by American Indians of t...

Presenting detailed information about 14 standard anthologies, this useful music reference tool lists all excerpts and complete compositions, provides information concerning the ty...