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Frankenstein & Mary Shelley

Frankenstein Resources Online
Links to criticism, images, study guides, etc.

Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature
An exhibit held at the National Library of Medicine.

Resources for the Study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Martin Irvine, Georgetown University

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PR5397.A1.1977  -  Upper Level, Terteling
The Annotated Frankenstein
Includes notes that highlight the literary, historical, social and biographical context of the novel.

PR5397.F73.A6.1990  -  Upper Level, Tertelingl
Approaches to Teaching Shelley's Frankenstein edited by Stephen C Behrendt

PR5397.F73.B3 1987  -  Upper Level, Terteling
In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth Monstrosity and Nineteenth-century Writing by Chris Baldick

PR5397.F73.E5  -  Upper Level, Terteling
The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel edited by George Levine and U. C. Knoepflmacher

PR5397.F73.L68.1993  -  Upper Level, Terteling
Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Wedding Guest by Mary Lowe-Evans
A biographical-historicist reading of the novel, focusing on questions about marriage and its limitations.

PR5397.F73.t48.1987  -  Upper Level, Terteling
The Monster in the Mirror: Gender and the Sentimental/Gothic Myth in Frankenstein by Mary K Patterson Thornburg

PR5397.F73.T7  -  Upper Level, Terteling
Mary Shelley's Monster:  The Story of Frankenstein by Martin Tropp
Shows how the figures of the Mad Scientist and the Monster created by Shelley have permeated science fiction literature and film.

PR5397.F73.V44  -  Upper Level, Terteling
Mary Shelley & Frankenstein: The Fate of Androgyny by William Veeder
Argues that all of Mary Shelley's novels reflect her lifelong concern with the balance between the masculine and feminine.

PR5397.F738  -  Upper Level, Terteling
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein:  Tracing the Myth by Christopher Small

Bioethics & Biotechnology

Bioethics  |  Cloning  |  Human Genome Project
Genetically Modified Foods

Bioethics

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH)
Select Resources for access to the ASBH Exchange, a "bibliographic tour" and links to other web resources. 

Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature
An exhibit held at the National Library of Medicine.

Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)

The President's Council on Bioethics

Bioethics on NBC's ER
Watch the show...then read an analysis of the bioethical issues involved in each episode.

American Journal of Bioethics (Project MUSE) - Albertson College Only

QH332.E52.1995  -  Reference, Main Level
Encyclopedia of Bioethics

R724.B4582.1999 - Lower Level, Terteling
Bioethics: An Anthology edited by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer

R724.C338.1998  -  Lower Level, Terteling
Due Consideration: Controversy in the Age of Medical Miracles by Arthur Caplan

RG133.5.H38.1992  -  Lower Level, Terteling
Wonderwoman and Superman: The Ethics of Human Biotechnology by John Harris

Cloning

Bioethics & Cloning
From the American Journal of Bioethics

Cloning Human Beings
Report and Commissioned Papers from the National Bioethics Advisory Commission.  Papers include Religious Perspectives on Human Cloning (PDF), An Assessment of Ethical Issues, Pro and Con (PDF), and others.

Cloning
A collection of articles from the New Scientist.

Cloning in Focus
From the University of Utah

Center for Genetics and Society - Human Cloning
Provides an introduction to the basic science of both reproductive and research cloning, as well as arguments pro and con.

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QH442.2.K65.1998  -  Lower Level, Terteling
Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead by Gina Kolata

QH442.2 .P458 2004 - Lower Level Terteling
Cloning after Dolly: Who's still afraid? by Gregory E. Pence

QH442.2.G63 2003 - Lower Level, Terteling
God and the Embryo: Religious Voices on Stem Cells and Cloning

QH442.2.B66.2002 - Lower Level, Terteling
Crafting a Cloning Policy: From Dolly to Stem Cells by Andrea L. Bonnicksen

Human Genome Project

Bioethics & Genetics
From the American Journal of Bioethics

Human Genome Project Information
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy

Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project

Council for Responsible Genetics

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QH445.2.H87.1996  -  Lower Level, Terteling
The Human Genome Project and the Future of Health Care edited by Thomas H. Murray, Mark A. Rothstein, and Robert F. Murray.

QH445.2.W55.1994  -  Lower Level, Terteling
Perilous Knowledge: The Human Genome Project and Its Implications by Tom Wilkie

Genetically Modified Foods

Special Report: The GM Debate
From the British newspaper The Guardian.

Health: The GM Debate
From the New York Times

GM Food
A collection of articles from the New Scientist

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TP248.65.F66.L35.2001  -  Upper Level, Terteling
Dinner at the New Gene Cafe: How Genetic Engineering is Changing What We Eat, How We Live and the Global Politics of Food by Bill Lambrecht

S494.5.B563.P74.2003 - Lower Level, Terteling
Food, Inc. : Mendel To Monsanto--The Promises And Perils Of The Biotech Harvest  by Peter Pringle

TP248.65.F66.G47.2001 - Upper Level, Terteling
Genetically Modified Organisms in Agriculture: Economics and Politics

HD9999.B443.U6176 2001 - Upper Level, Terteling
Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money and the Future of Food by Charles Daniel

Monster Movies

Frankenstein's Castle: The Ultimate Frankenstein Film Site

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Online Horror and Suspense Scripts
Includes first draft of Young Frankenstein script, others.

Official Boris Karloff Home Page

Cyborgs

Cyborgs 'R' Us: A Guide to the History of the Cyborg
Martin Irvine, Georgetown University

Cyborg Manifesto or The Joy of Artifice
An art exhibit at the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA.

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TJ211.C28.1992  -  Upper Level, Terteling
In Our Own Image: Building an Artificial Person by Maureen Caudill

TJ211.C6.1967  - Upper Level, Terteling
Human Robots in Myth and Science by John Cohen

Science Fiction

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Includes information on the Nebula Awards, reading lists and links to online fiction.

SF Site
"The Home Page for Science Fiction and Fantasy."

Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Some (but not all) of the magazine's current issue is available online.

Asimov's Science Fiction
Another major Science Fiction magazine.

PN3433.4.E53.1993.R  -  Reference, Main Level
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls

N3433.5.D57.1998  -  Upper Level, Terteling
The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World by Thomas M. Disch

PN3448.S45.M3  -  Upper Level, Terteling
Many Futures, Many Worlds: Theme and Form in Science Fiction edited by Thomas D. Clareson

PN3448.S45.M65  -  Upper Level, Terteling
Explorers of the Infinite: Shapers of Science Fiction by Sam Moskowitz
See, in particular, Chapter 2 - "The Sons of Frankenstein."

PN3448.S45.S26  -  Upper Level, Terteling
Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision by Robert Scholes and Eric S. Rabkin

PN3448.S45.S897  -  Upper Level, Terteling
Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre by Darko Suvin

Romantic Period

Romantic Circles
A scholarly web site devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.

DA529.E53.1992.R  -  Reference, Main Level
Encyclopedia of Romantic Culture in Britain

PR447.B8.1982  -  Upper Level, Terteling
Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background, 1760-1830 by Marilyn Butler

PR447.R64.1999.R  -  Reference, Main Level
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832

PR457.C33.1993  -  Upper Level, Terteling
The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism edited by Stuart Curran

PR469.F44.R66.1988  -  Upper Level, Terteling
Romanticism and Feminism edited by Anne K. Mellor

Feminist Readings of Frankenstein

PN471.M63  -  Upper Level, Terteling
Literary Women by Ellen Moers

PR115.G5  -  Upper Level, Terteling
Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

PR5397.F73.E5  -  Upper Level, Terteling
"The Female Gothic" by Ellen Moers in The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel edited by George Levine and U. C. Knoepflmacher

PR5398.M4.1988  -  Upper Level, Terteling
Mary Shelley, Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters by Anne K. Mellor