Click on the topics below to find out more about Frankenstein from a range of useful databases and websites:
Topic pages in Credo Reference
Credo Reference has thousands of subject specific topic pages - a great place to start exploring a topic. Each topic page provides an encyclopaedia entry or dictionary definition, entries from other books on Credo, YouTube videos, images, and links to news articles creating a really useful overview of your chosen topic. Click on 'View Topic on Credo' to see all of the items on the Frankenstein topic page.
Here's a sample of the resources about Mary Shelley and Frankenstein available on Proquest Learning: Literature:
Mary Shelley
Author page |
Biography |
Bibliography |
Helicon Encyclopedia of Literature Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley entry |
Interview: Miranda Seymour discusses the |
Frankenstein - the novel, study guide and background
Frankenstein - 1818 edition |
KnowledgeNote Study Guide |
Frankenstein - 1831 edition |
Encyclopedia of the Novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley entry |
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - in charts
Adam Frost, Sergio Gallardo and Edu Fuentes piece together the facts behind the myth in the Guardian Sat 13 Jan 2018.
Click on the image below to see all charts:
The Gothic is a theme in the British Library's Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians collection. On these pages of the British Library's website you can discover more about Frankenstein and the wider gothic genre.
In addition there is information about Mary Shelley and other iconic authors of the Victorian and Romantic periods.
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