Kempner High School

* Note *  The following links will open on any school computer.  If you are working from home, you mustuse the password found in the Research folder of the Library Schoology page. 

• Shelley, Mary (1797-1851) - British Writers: Supplement 3. Ed. George Stade. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996. p355-373. From Scribner Writers on GVRL.

• The beheading of Marie Antoinette
• Mary Hays and the forms of life - Studies in Romanticism, Spring 2013
• Marie Antoinette - DISCovering Biography, 2003
• George the III declared insane
• Reading the symptoms: an exploration of repression and hysteria in Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.' - Studies in the Novel. 25.2 (Summer 1993): p152. From Literature Resource Center.
• The death of Mary Wollstonecraft - Mary's Mother
• Frankenstein: The prequel: Governess service - Stephen Bates
  The Wilson Quarterly. 32.3 (Summer 2008): p14. From Literature Resource Center.
• Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797) - British Writers: Supplement 3. Ed. George Stade. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996. p465-482. From Scribner Writers on GVRL.
• Mary meets Percy Shelley
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - DISCovering Authors, 2003
• the death of Percy Shelley's wife
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - British Romantic Poets, 1789-1832: Second Series. Ed. John R. Greenfield. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 96. Detroit: Gale, 1990. From Literature Resource Center.
• Romantic Death: Real Death - The Pursuit of Death: A Study of Shelly's Poetry. (1970): p82-142. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Denise Evans and Daniel G. Marowski. Vol. 68. Detroit: Gale, 1998. From Literature Resource Center.
• Erasmus Darwin
• Historical Context: Frankenstein - EXPLORING Novels, 2003
• Mary Shelley's children
• Shelley, Mary (1797-1851) - British Writers: Supplement 3. Ed. George Stade. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996. p355-373. From Scribner Writers on GVRL.
• Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley - DISCovering Authors, 2003
• Harriet Shelly and Percy Shelley
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) - British Writers: Retrospective Supplement 1. Ed. Jay Parini. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002. p243-257. From Scribner Writers on GVRL.
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe - British Writers. Ed. Ian Scott-Kilvert. Vol. 4. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979. p195-210. From Scribner Writers on GVRL.
• Claire Claremont (sister) and Percy Shelley
• The Incest Motif in Shelley's The Cenci - Comparative Drama 19.3 (Fall 1985): p222-239. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Russel Whitaker. Vol. 143. Detroit: Gale, 2005. From Literature Resource Center.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - British Reform Writers, 1789-1832. Ed. Gary Kelly and Edd Applegate. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 158. Detroit: Gale, 1996. From Literature Resource Center.
• The year without a summer
• How Frankenstein became a monster: two hundred years of a prolific and horrific creation - New Statesman. 145.5331 (Sept. 9, 2016): p38. From Literature Resource Center.
• the eruption of Mount Tambora
• Gillen D'Arcy Wood. Tambora: The Eruption that Changed the World - Studies in Romanticism. 54.1 (Spring 2015): p127. From Literature Resource Center.
• the publication and reception of Frankenstein (search doc for "review")
• Frankenstein - Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1997. p180-202. From Gale Virtual Reference Library.
• Mary Shelley and Shakespeare: monstrous creations - South Atlantic Review. 72.2 (Spring 2007): p15. From Literature Resource Center.
• William Godwin (Mary's father)
• William Godwin - British Reform Writers, 1789-1832. Ed. Gary Kelly and Edd Applegate. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 158. Detroit: Gale, 1996. From Literature Resource Center.
• The Godwin/Shelley concept of open marriage
• Mary Shelley and Gothic Feminism: The Case of 'The Mortal Immortal.' - Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley After Frankenstein. Ed. Syndy M. Conger , Gregory O'Dea , and Frederick S. Frank . Teaneck, N.J.: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997. p150-166. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 92. Detroit: Gale, 2006. From Literature Resource Center.
• Galvanism
• The Monstrous Body of Knowledge in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Studies in Romanticism 34.2 (Summer 1995): p227-253. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Denise Kasinec and Mary L. Onorato. Vol. 59. Detroit: Gale, 1997. From Literature Resource Center.
• The Whaling ship the Essex
• Website (Click the link from the Gale database.) - "PBS: The Voyage of the Odyssey: Moby-Dick." Gale Student Resources in Context, Gale, 2010. Student Resources in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/PC4295600112/SUIC?u=j079907005&xid=fdc173c8. Accessed 9 Dec. 2016.
• Literature Criticism - Jules Verne, Herman Melville, and the 'Question of the Monster.'Jules Verne, Herman Melville, and the 'Question of the Monster.' - Extrapolation 39.2 (Summer 1998): p139-147. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Kathy D. Darrow. Vol. 200. Detroit: Gale. From Literature Resource Center.