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Voice of the Shuttle Literature Resources The Voice of the Shuttle provides a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources. [|http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex] [|/]The Gale Group publishes several series of literary criticism which are often found in libraries. These volumes usually include some biographical information on an author, a listing of major works, and a variety of excerpts from critical essays written about the author and works. There is a free index to 40 of these series, available online. You can search this// to find out which Gale series you might look at for information on your topic.
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Critical sites about //Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus//

 * //Reviews and anaylsis from the time period in which Frankenstein was written://**
 * [|The Belle Assemblee Review of Frankenstein]**Contemporary review provided on a site published and maintained by the University of Maryland Romantic Circles. "We hope, however, the writer had the moral in view which we are desirous of drawing from it, that the presumptive works of man must be frightful, vile, and horrible; ending only in discomfort and misery to himself."
 * Contains:**Review, Plot Summary
 * Author:**Anonymous **From:** The Belle Assemblee, or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazinev. 17 (March 1818): 139-142

This review praises Shelley's poetic sense and her critique of humanity, but asserts that the novel was written not by Mary Shelley but by her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley. The review compares the work to several other famous works, includingGulliver's Travels. The site is published and maintained by the University of Maryland Romantic Circles.
 * [|Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Review of Frankenstein, 1818]**
 * Contains:** Plot Summary, Review, Content Analysis, Character Analysis **Author:**Walter Scott **From:** Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v. 2 (20 March/1 April 1818): 613-620


 * [|The Literary Panorama review of Frankenstein, 1 June 1818]**http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/chronologies/mschronology/reviews/lprev.html"This novel is a feeble imitation of one that was very popular in its day,--the St. Leon of Mr. Godwin....and it exhibits a strong tendency towards materialism." Genrally negative review that mentions the possibility that the novel was written by Percy Shelley, not Mary Shelley. Site published by the University of Maryland Romantic Circles.**Contains:** Review, Plot Summary **Author:**Anonymous **From:** The Literary Panorama and National Register, n.s. v. 8 (1 June 1818): 411-414

[|Mary Shelley - Frankenstein Summary of Modern Criticism]
 * //Additional analysis://**

[|Hail Mary Shelley for her Frankenstein exercise of mind]An unscholarly reading of the novel.

[|Making Monsters: A Web Site Devoted to Mary Shelley and Her Novel Frankenstein](Cynthia Hamberg)E-text, biography, links, and brief notes on contexts.

[|Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Chronology & Resource Site](Shanon Lawson, Delaware; Romantic Circles)Thorough and accurate timeline, along with the texts of early reviews and a short secondary bibliography.

[|"'Beyond the Usual Bounds of Reverie'? Another Look at the Dreams in Frankenstein"] by Jonathan C. Glance (Mercer U).

[|"Frankenstein’s Singular Events: Inductive Reasoning, Narrative Technique, and Generic Classification"] by Monique R. Morgan [//Romanticism on the Net//]

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Jane Austen
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Emily Bronte
Jerome Bump, U. Texas, Austin, "Family-Systems Theory, Addiction, and Emily Brontë's //Wuthering Heights//: Part 6 of //The Family Dynamics of Victorian Fiction//" (1997) John P. Farrell, U. Texas, Austin, "The Dreams in //Wuthering Heights//" (1989) (The Victorian Web) **[|Emily Bronte - Victorian Web]**

Charles Dickens
[|The Social Context of Dickens's Novels] — Chapter 2 of E. D. H. Johnson's Charles Dickens: An Introduction to His Novels [|Victorian Social History] [|Charles Dickens - Victorian Web]

Bram Stoker
[|Science or Séance?: Late-Victorian Science and Dracula's Epistolary Structure] **Dracula_Criticism**