FrankensteinText Overview

In this unit, we will read the novel Frankenstein, and a series of related poems and informational texts. The location of these texts is indicated in the Unit Text List.

• Unit Text List

Core

• • Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Signet Classics, 1831

• • “Dr. Frankenstein’s Three Big Mistakes,” Charlotte Gordon, Slate.com, 2017
  • Excerpt from The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, Viking Books, 2002
  • “Frankenstein’s Monster Makes a Logical and Emotional Appeal,” Sam Leith, Financial Times, 2018
  • “Godmother of Intelligences,” Eileen Hunt Botting, Aeon, 2018
  • “Mutability,” Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poetry Foundation, 1816
  • “The Romantics,” Stephanie Forward, British Library, 2014
  • “To Science,” Edgar Allen Poe, Poetry Foundation, 1829
  • “What Is an Epistolary Novel?,” Evan Gottlieb, Oregon State University, 2020
  • “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” Walt Whitman, Poetry Foundation, 1865

• • “Frankenstein: The Creature’s Education,” Julie Melnyk, N/A, 2016
  • “Mary Shelley: A Biography,” National Theatre UK, National Theatre UK, 2015
  • “Teaching the Monster Manners” from Bride of Frankenstein (1935), James Whale, TCM, 1935
  • “The Abnormal Brain” from Frankenstein (1931), James Whale, TCM, 1931
  • “The Real Experiments that Inspired Frankenstein,” Vox — History Club, Vox, 2019

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