Research Guides: ENGL 4320/ 5323- The Romantic Period & Studies in Romanticism: Mary Shelley

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British Library-The science of life and death in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Professor Sharon Ruston surveys the scientific background to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, considering contemporary investigations into resuscitation, galvanism and the possibility of states between life and death.
British Library-Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and the Villa Diodati
Greg Buzwell describes the bizarre circumstances that gave rise to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and the other works that emerged from the ‘ghost story challenge’ at the Villa Diodati in the summer of 1816.
British Library-The science of life and death in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Professor Sharon Ruston surveys the scientific background to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, considering contemporary investigations into resuscitation, galvanism and the possibility of states between life and death.

BBC Podcast-Mary Shelley
Greg Jenner is joined by literary expert Dr Corin Throsby and comedian Lauren Pattison as we explore the life of genre changing literary icon, Mary Shelley.
BBC Podcast-Frankenstein
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's story of Victor Frankenstein and the creature he makes from cadavers and then rejects - only for the monster to take his revenge