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Websites
The
Bakken Library and Museum
This web site is a virtual tour of The Bakken's exhibit
"Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Dream."
Frank-in-Books
A traveling exhibition to American libraries developed by the National Library of Medicine in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office.
Frankenstein
A web site developed by students at Washington State University enrolled in an Honors seminar focused on monsters in literature and film. Includes filmography, historical context, science and technology.
Frankenstein;
or, the Modern Prometheus
Developed by the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania, this is a scholarly web site containing detailed analysis, critical commentary, and many illustrations.
My
Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
This is a web site developed by Cynthia Hamberg as part of her MA thesis on the functionality of literary web sites. It contains a wide variety of information about the life of Mary Shelley and her most famous novel, Frankenstein.
Romantic
Circles Scholarly Resources
This web site is the work of the organization Romantic Circles Scholarly Resources, from the University of Maryland. It consists of searchable online research tools for the study of the Romantics, their contemporaries, and their cultural contexts.
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