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Pre-reading Activities

Considering Context

Cultural Context

• 18th-century Britain, 1714–1815
• The Impact of the British Industrial Revolution
• Science and Technology in the 19th Century

Creator Context

• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• William Godwin

Contemporary Context

• Britannica
• Poetry Foundation
• Historic UK

During-reading Activities

Volume One – Chapters VII and VIII – Justine’s Trial

Innocent or Guilty

• A (very) brief history of the legal system in England and Wales
• Legal History of England
• Crime, 1780-1925

Volume Two – Chapters I and II – Crossing the Alps

Mutability

• Mutability by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Volume Two – Chapters III–IX – Examining the Creature

Allegory and Allusion

• Sympathy for the Devil: An Analysis of Satan in 'Paradise Lost'

Volume Three – Chapters IV–VI – Revenge

The Deaths of Women

• What Is the Feminist Approach to Literary Criticism?
• What Are Feminist Criticism, Postfeminist Criticism, and Queer Theory?

Volume Three – Chapter VII – Walton, in continuation

Personal Response

• Theories of Criticism in English Literature
• 15 Types of Literary Criticism Theories with Examples

After-reading Activities

Characters and Relationships

Victor and the Creature

• Effects of parental rejection

Context

The Original Copy

• Edward James

Personal Life

• Mary Shelley Biography

Language of the Text

The Romantic

• Romantic literature

Wider Reading

Other Works by Shelley

• Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
• The Last Man (1826)
• Falkner (1835)

Contemporaries

• Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Paradise Lost, John Milton
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

Modern Texts

• BROKEN LINK: Modern gothic novels
• Books inspired by Frankenstein
• The Frankenstein's monsters of the 21st Century
• 8 Books that Wouldn’t Exist Without Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein'
• We Shall be Monsters: 8 of the Best Frankenstein Retellings

Critical Reviews

• Uncovering the Depths: A Critical Analysis of Frankenstein’s Modernity and Moral Dilemmas
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley [A Review]
• BROKEN LINK: Scattered Books

Academic Writing

• Frankenstein Unmasked: A Critical Analysis of “Otherness” in Frankenstein and its Significance for Establishing an Anti-Oppressive Education
• The Art of Gothic Literature: An Analysis of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
• The Critical Metamorphoses of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein