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Compositions from Shelley's Prometheus unbound
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‘Painted fancy’s unsuspected scope’
‘Painted fancy’s unsuspected scope’
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...
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
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...
Frankenstein, Gender, and Mother Nature
Frankenstein, Gender, and Mother Nature
Why did Mary Shelley create THE myth of modern science on June 16, 1816? This essay explores the autobiographical and scientific origins of Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, ...
Chronology of Science and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Chronology of Science and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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....
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
“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...
We Are All Monsters
We Are All Monsters
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 American Indian Ghost Dance, 1870 and 1890
The American Indian Ghost Dance, 1870 and 1890
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...