Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature
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Books about exhibition themes for adult readers
Chris Baldick.
In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing. Oxford University Press, 1990.
Betty T. Bennett.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An Introduction. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Steven Earl Forry.
Hideous Progenies: Dramatizations of Frankenstein from Mary Shelley to the Present. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1990.
Frankenstein: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical, Historical, and Cultural Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Contemporary Critics, 2nd ed. Johanna M. Smith, ed. St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Thomas Hankins.
Science and the Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Roslynn D. Haynes.
From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western Literature. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Stephen Jones.
The Frankenstein Scrapbook: The Complete Movie Guide to the World's Most Famous Monster. Carol Publishing Group, 1995.
Leon R. Kass and James Q. Wilson.
The Ethics of Human Cloning. AEI Press, 1998.
Bill Lambrecht.
Dinner at the New Gene Cafe: How Genetic Engineering Is Changing What We Eat, How We Live, and the Global Politics of Food. St. Martin's Press, Inc., 2001.
Kenan Malik.
Man, Beast, and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us about Human Nature. Rutgers University Press, 2002.
Timothy Marshall.
Murdering to Dissect: Graverobbing, Frankenstein, and the Anatomy Literature. St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1996.
Mary Shelley in Her Times. Betty T. Bennett, Stuart Curran, eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
The Mary Shelley Reader: Containing Frankenstein, Mathilda, Tales and Stories, Essays and Reviews, and Letters by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Betty T. Bennett and Charles E. Robinson, eds. Oxford University Press, 1990.
Dorothy Nelkin and M. Susan Lindee.
The DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon. Henry Holt & Company, 1996.
Terry O'Neill.
Biomedical Ethics. Greenhaven Press, 1998. Grade 8 and up.
Caroline J.S. Picart.
The Cinematic Rebirths ofFrankenstein: Universal, Hammer and Beyond. Praeger, 2001.
Caroline J.S. Picart, Jayne Blodgett and Frank Smoot.
A Frankenstein Film Sourcebook. Greenwood, 2001.
Matt Ridley.
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters. HarperTrade, 2000.
Bernard E. Rollin.
Frankenstein Syndrome: Ethical and Social Issues in the Genetic Engineering of Animals. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Michael Sappol.
A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America. Princeton University Press, 2002.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. Maurice Hindle, ed. (Penguin Classics). Penguin, 1992.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Contexts, Nineteenth-Century Responses, Modern Criticism. Paul J. Hunter, ed. Norton, 1996.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
The Last Man. Hugh J. Luke, Jr., ed.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Betty T. Bennett, ed.
Susan Merrill Squier.
Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology. Rutgers University Press, 1994.
Linda Tagliaferro.
Genetic Engineering: Progress or Peril? Lerner Publishing Group, 1997. Grade 8 and up.
Martin Tropp.
Images of Fear: How Horror Stories Helped Shape Modern Culture. McFarland & Company, 1999.
Jon Turney.
Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture. Yale University Press, 1998.
Robert M. M. Veatch.
The Basics of Bioethics. Prentice Hall, 1999.
John Williams.
Mary Shelley: A Literary Life. St. Martin's Press, Inc., 2000.
Lois Wingerson.
Unnatural Selection: The Promise and the Power of Human Gene Research. Bantam Books, Inc., 1999.
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Selected reading for younger audiences
Addie Adam.
Hilda and the Mad Scientist. Illustrated by Lisa Theising. Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, July 1995. Ages 5 to 8. o.p.
Roscoe Cooper.
The Diary of Victor Frankenstein. DK Ink, 1997. Ages 10 and up.
Stephen Cosgrove.
Creole. Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 2001.
Jeanne DuPrau.
Cloning. Gale Group, 2000. Ages 12-16.
Sylvia Funston.
Monsters: A Strange Science Book. Illustrated by Joe Weissmann. Owl Book (distributed by Firefly Books), 2001. Ages 8 to 12
Janet Perry and Victor Gentle.
Mad Scientists. Gareth Stevens Audio, 1999. Grades 3 to 5.
Colin McNaughton.
Making Friends with Frankenstein: A Book of Monstrous Poems and Pictures. Candlewick Press, 2001. Ages 6-12.
Cynthia Pratt Nicolson.
Baa! The Most Interesting Book You'll Ever Read about Genes and Cloning. Kids Can Press, 2001. Ages 9-14.
Terry O'Neill.
Biomedical Ethics. Greenhaven Press, 1998. Ages 14 and up.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Frankenstein. Adapted and illustrated by Chris Mould. Oxford University Press, 1998. Ages 7 and up.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Frankenstein. Illustrations by Philippe Munch. Viking, 1998. Ages 12 and up.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Frankenstein (PBS Wishbone Classics Series #7). Illustrations by Kathryn Yingling and Ed Parker. William Morrow & Co, 1996. Ages 9-11.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Frankenstein. Adapted by Steve Parker, illustrations by McRae Books Agency Staff. Millbrook Press, 1995. Ages 9-11. Good review in School Library Journal.
Mary Shelley.
Frankenstein. Adapted by Larry Weinberg, illustrations by Ken Barr. Random House, 2000. A Stepping Stone Book Classic. Ages 7-10.
Linda Tagliaferro.
Genetic Engineering: Progress or Peril? Lerner Publishing Group, 1997. Ages 14 and up.
David Wisniewski.
Golem. Illustrations by Lee Salsbery. Houghton Mifflin, 1996. Ages 8-11. A Caldecott Medal Book.
