Pieced Together: The Influences in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Spring 2024 EN3414-01 students

Contributor

Lauren Geiger, KC New, and Carrie Mastley

Date

2025-03-10

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This is a collection of materials related to Frankenstein by Mary Shelley that were selected by the students of Mississippi State University's EN3414 Critical Writing and Resource Literary Studies.

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Frankenstein at work in his laboratory

This is an illustration from the book of Frankenstein at work in his laboratory. It is a black and white sketch of Frankenstein over the skeleton of The Monster. There are science instruments surrounding the skeleton.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke is about the tabula rasa. The tabula rasa is also referred to as the blank slate. It is the idea that all beings are born without knowledge, before experience. This connects to Frankenstein's…

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

De Hvmani Corporis Fabrica Liber I : Image of the human Body in De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the Fabric of the Human Body in Seven Books)

De Hvmani Corporis Fabrica Liber I (On the Structure of the Human Body, Book I) is an image within Image within De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the Fabric of the Human Body in Seven Books). This image shows a detailed visual…

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Albatross Illustration

This is an illustration of the line "With my cross-bow/ I shot the Albatross" from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." The work was done in black and white and the background depicts an icy, rock-strewn ocean. An albatross is flying above a mast and…

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, The Nervous System that Connects the Voluntary Muscles with the Brain

In the letter “The Nervous System that Connects the Voluntary Muscles with the Brain,” author Charles Bell shows how the human nervous system can be stimulated by electricity in order to produce movement and “humanlike” activity, which is applied to…

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, An Account of some Galvanic Combinations

This item details how Galvanic combinations are created and produced. The chapter talks about the chemical changes and the construction that occurs during Galvanism.

Commentaries of the Laws of England Book the First

Excerpts on the laws of England, regarding parent-child obligations, inheritance and lineage, legitimacy, and bastardy.

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