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Class Citations: Facing Familiar Fears: Race, Gender, and Technology in Frankenstein

Thank you to everyone who attended the Miskatonic New York May 2022 class. Please find below instructor Wendy C. Nielsen’s bibliography and filmography from the lecture.

  • Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds. Edited by David H Guston et al., MIT Press, 2017. Source link.
  • Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. 1831 edition. Source link.
  • Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. “Introduction to the 1831 ed. of Frankenstein.” Romantic Circles, May 2009. Source link.
  • Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Vol. 1. Edited by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert. Oxford: Clarendon, 1987.
  • Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. “Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman.” A Celebration of Women Writers. Source link.

BOOKS AND ARTICLES

  • Aguilera-Castrejon, Alejandro, Bernardo Oldak, Tom Shani, et al., “Ex Utero Mouse Embryogenesis from Pre-Gastrulation to Late Organogenesis.” Nature (March 17, 2021): 1–8.
  • Bedau, Mark A. “The Nature of Life.” In The Philosophy of Artificial Life, edited by Margaret A. Boden, 332-57. Clarendon: Oxford University Press, 1996.
  • Behrendt, Stephen. “Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Woman Writer’s Fate.” In Romantic Women Writers: Voices and Countervoices, edited by Paula R. Feldman and Theresa M. Kelley, 69-87. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1995.
  • Bewell, Alan. “An Issue of Monstrous Desire: Frankenstein and Obstetrics.” Yale Journal of Criticism 2, no. 1 (Fall 1988): 105-28.
  • Claridge, Laura P. “Parent-Child Tensions in Frankenstein: The Search for Communion.” Studies in the Novel 17, no. 1 (1985): 14-26.
  • Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome. “Monster Culture (Seven Theses).” In Monster Theory: Reading Culture, edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, 3-25. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
  • Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. 6th ed. London: H. G. Collins, 1851.
  • Douthwaite, Julia V. The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
  • Douthwaite, Julia V. The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
  • Ebenstein, Joanna. The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death and the Ecstatic. New York: D. A. P., 2016.
  • Engelstein, Stefani. Anxious Anatomy: The Conception of the Human Form in Literary and Naturalist Discourse. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008.
  • Florescu, Radu. In Search of Frankenstein. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976.
  • Forry, Steven Earl. Hideous Progenies: Dramatizations of Frankenstein from Mary Shelley to the Present. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.
  • Francus, Marilyn. Monstrous Motherhood: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Ideology of Domesticity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
  • Friedman, Lester D. and Allison B. Kavey. Monstrous Progeny: A History of the Frankenstein Narratives. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016.
  • Heffernan, James A. W. “Looking at the Monster: Frankenstein and Film.” Critical Inquiry 24, no. 1 (Autumn 1997): 133-58.
  • Holmes, Martha Stoddard. “Born This Way: Reading Frankenstein with Disability.” Literature & Medicine 36, no. 2 (Fall 2018): 372–87.
  • Jacobus, Mary. “Is There a Woman in This Text?”. New Literary History 14, no. 1 (Autumn 1982): 117-41.
  • Johnson, Barbara. “My Monster/My Self.” Diacritics 12, no. 2 (Summer 1982): 2-10.
  • Kitson, Peter J. Romantic Literature, Race and Colonial Encounter. New York: Palgrave, 2007.
  • Knoepflmacher, U. C. “Thoughts on the Aggression of Daughters.” In The Endurance of Frankenstein : Essays on Mary Shelley’s Novel, edited by George Levine and U. C. Knoepflmacher, 88-122. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
  • Langton, Christopher G. “Editor’s Introduction.” Artificial Life 1, no. 1-2 (1993): v-viii.
  • Lloyd Smith, Allan. “’This Thing of Darkness’: Racial Discourse in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Gothic Studies 6, no. 2 (2004): 208-222.
  • Malchow, Howard L. “Frankenstein’s Monster and Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain.” Past & Present, no. 139 (1993): 90-130.
  • Malchow, Howard L. Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996.
  • Marsh, Sarah. “Romantic Medicine, the British Constitution, and Frankenstein.” Keats-Shelley Journal 64 (2015): 105-122.
  • Mellor, Anne K. “Frankenstein: A Feminist Critique of Science.” One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature. Edited by George Levine. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987, 287-310.
  • Mellor, Anne K. “Frankenstein, Racial Science, and the Yellow Peril.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 23, no. 1 (2001): 1–28.
  • Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. New York: Methuen, 1988.
  • Mellor, Anne K. “Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein.” Romanticism and Feminism. Edited by Anne K. Mellor. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988. 220-32.
  • Moers, Ellen. “The Female Gothic: The Monster’s Mother.” The New York Review of Books (Mar. 21, 1974): 24-28.
  • Mulvey-Roberts, Marie. Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.
  • Pollidori, John William. The Vampyre; a Tale. 1819. https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/6087
  • Scott, Walter. “Remarks on Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus; A Novel,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2, no. 12 (March 1818): 613–20. Source link.
  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “On Frankenstein,” The Athenæum, no. 263 (November 10, 1832): 730. Source link.
  • Spillers, Hortense J. “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book.” Diacritics 17, no. 2 (1987): 65-81.
  • Terada, Rei. “Blackness and Anthropogenesis in Frankenstein,” in Frankenstein in Theory: A Critical Anatomy, edited by Orrin N. C. Wang, 131-52. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
  • Young, Elizabeth. Black Frankenstein : the Making of an American Metaphor. New York: New York University Press, 2008.
  • Young, Elizabeth. “Here Comes the Bride: Wedding Gender and Race in Bride of Frankenstein.” Feminist Studies 17, no. 3 (1991): 403-37.

FILMS (chronological listing of a small sample)

  • Blackenstein, dir. William A. Levey, perf. John Hart, Ivory Stone, Andrea King, and Joe de Sue. Frisco Productions Limited, 1973.
  • Bride of Re-animator, dir. Brian Yuzna, perf. Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, and Claude Earl Jones. 50th Street Films, 1990/1991.
  • Flesh for Frankenstein, dir. Paul Morrisey, perf. Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, and Monique Van Vooren. Gold Film, 1973.
  • Frankenhooker, dir. Frank Henenlotter, perf. James Lorinz, Patty Mullen, Louise Lasser. Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment, 1990.
  • Frankenstein, dir. J. Dawley, perf. Charles Ogle, Augustus Phillips, Mary Fuller. Edison Mfg. Co., 1910; United States: Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, 2017.  Source link.
  • Frankenstein, dir. James Whale, perf. Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff. United States: NBC Universal, 1931.
  • Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man,  dir. Roy William Neill, perf. Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lon Chaney, Jr. Universal Pictures Company, Inc., 1943.
  • The Ghost of Frankenstein, dir. Erle C. Kenton, perf. Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Bellamy, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney, Jr., Evelyn Ankers. Universal Pictures Company, Inc., 1942.
  • Gothic, dir. Ken Russell, perf. Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson, and Timothy Spall. Vestron Pictures, 1986. Source link.
  • House of Frankenstein, dir. Erle C. Kenton, perf. Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Jr., John Carradine, J. Carrol Naish. Universal Pictures Company, Inc., 1944.
  • Re-Animator, dir. Stuart Gordon, perf. Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, and David Gale. Empire International Pictures, 1985.
  • Son of Frankenstein, dir. Rowland V. Lee, perf. Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, Donny Dunagan, Josephine Hutchinson. Universal Pictures Company, Inc., 1939.

THEATER

  • Boyle, Danny, director. Frankenstein. Royal National Theatre in 2011, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller.
  • Peake, Richard Brinsley. Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein. July 28, 1823. Source link.