It's Alive Celebrating 200 Years of Frankenstein
Exploring Frankenstein with the New York Times:
To mark the 200th birthday of “Frankenstein,” we have updated our older Learning Network lessons with recent Times resources to pair with the text. We also provide teaching ideas related to theme and suggest activities for students.
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gives readers the opportunity to trace the scientific, technological, political, and ethical dimensions of the novel, and to learn more about its historical context and enduring legacy.
Frankenstein: The Novel
Copies Available Through Georgia Southern Libraries
Georgia Southern Libraries has several copies of Frankenstein available in the collection.
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by
"James Rieger's Frankenstein is relatively special among editions: it is the definitive scholarly text, and it is also the most readable copy for the classroom and the general reader. . . .The Rieger Frankenstein is very simply the best edition of this tremendously important and popular novel."--William Veeder, University of Chicago
Call Number: Zach S. Henderson Library Automated Retrieval Collection-Place Request PR5397 .F7 1982ISBN: 0226752275Publication Date: 1982-03-15
Frankenstein by
No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the adaptations, imitations and outright plagiarisms which have followed in its ample wake. In her first novel, written at the instigation of Lord Byron and published in 1818 (and revised in 1831), Mary Shelley produced English Romanticism's finest prose fiction.
Call Number: Lane Library Main Stacks PR5397 .F7 1992ISBN: 0679409998Publication Date: 1992-03-10
Frankenstein by
The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author during a cold and rainy summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, the dramatic tale of Victor Frankenstein and his stitched-together creature can be read as the ultimate parable of scientific hubris. Victor, "the modern Prometheus," tried to do what he perhaps should have left to Nature: create life. Although the novel is most often discussed in literary-historical terms--as a seminal example of romanticism or as a groundbreaking early work of science fiction--Mary Shelley was keenly aware of contemporary scientific developments and incorporated them into her story. In our era of synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and climate engineering, this edition of Frankenstein will resonate forcefully for readers with a background or interest in science and engineering, and anyone intrigued by the fundamental questions of creativity and responsibility. This edition of Frankenstein pairs the original 1818 version of the manuscript--meticulously line-edited and amended by Charles E. Robinson, one of the world's preeminent authorities on the text--with annotations and essays by leading scholars exploring the social and ethical aspects of scientific creativity raised by this remarkable story. The result is a unique and accessible edition of one of the most thought-provoking and influential novels ever written. Essays by Elizabeth Bear, Cory Doctorow, Heather E. Douglas, Josephine Johnston, Kate MacCord, Jane Maienschein, Anne K. Mellor, Alfred Nordmann
Call Number: Zach S. Henderson Library 3rd Floor Books PR5397 .F7 2017ISBN: 9780262533287Publication Date: 2017-05-05
Additional Explorations of the Novel
Several venues have published special articles exploring the themes, history, and impact of Shelley's novel.Illustration by Henning Wagenbreth taken from https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-strange-and-twisted-life-of-frankenstein
- How a Teenage Girl became the Mother of Horror
- National Geographic: History Magazine
- The Strange and Twisted Life of "Frankenstein"
- The New Yorker *the library provides a full subsccription to the New Yorker through Flipster. The entire special article is available in the Feb. 12, 2018 issue (It's Still Alive)
- Frankenstein Lives, 200 Years Later
- The Washington Post
- The Science of Life and Death in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- Essay from The Public Domain Review