Shelley Links

The Bluestocking Circle

A site devoted to the writings of the British high Romantic Bluestocking Circle. Jump to the Archive for useful information.

The Crucial Dialogue

This "newly-discovered" manuscript of Shelley's "epic limerick" is strictly for amusement.

Dictionary of Sensibility

Organized by term list, but includes discussion of Frankenstein passages. For example, page 34, or under the terms Melancholy/Madness.

Frankenstein

The 1831 edition via http (U Va) and via gopher (U Penn).
The 1818 edition via gopher.
A word searchable version.
An e-text made available by An Online Literature Library. The Womens' Studies site at U-Maryland offers this e-text, based on the 1912 Everyman's Library edition.

Gothic: Materials for Study

Primarily a collection of excerpts (including Frankenstein) grouped around topics like "the Female Gothic." Good for comparison work.

Keats-Shelley Journal

A journal published by the Keats-Shelley Association of America. You'll find tables of contents listed, but unfortunately not searchable, back to 1970. Also, a list of links.

Literary Resources -- Romantic

An exhaustive/exhausting list of links.

Mary Shelley in Her Times

This is really just a conference schedule, but the lecture titles are interesting and will give you a sense of current Shelley scholarship.

Mary Shelley Home Page

Has a list of sites and sources. Warning: a sound filed is embedded in this page; if you're in the IRCs, you should turn your Sound off before clicking.

Prometheus Unplugged

Housed at Emory, includes a library of links and a bulletin board for discussion. Also, an article on The Last Man.

Resources for the study of Frankenstein

The homepage for Eng 016 at Georgetown University. Includes e-texts and hypertexts.

Romanticism on the Net

This periodical has its own list of journals and list of sites.

Victorian Women Writers Project

at Indiana, lists many available works and resources.

VOS Romantic Authors

An amazingly comprehensive page of links. Also includes links to criticism, journals and post-Romanticism pages. Jump to the alphabetical authors listing to find Mary Shelley.

Women Writers Project

at Brown University, has a textbase, a discussion group, and a list of sites relating to women writers in English before 1830.


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