Reserves: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

This is a list of books and articles on reserve at the circulation desk on the top floor of Brown Library. Each reference is given in MLA format.

There are three types of books on reserve:

1. Books by the author. Reprinted editions usually have one or more editors as well.

2. Books about the author (i.e., biography or literary criticism).

3. Anthologies - These are collections of critical writings about the author. The writings, by various researchers and scholars, are usually reprints of articles published originally in journals. An anthology will have one or more editors. A writing from an anthology is not cited the same way as a book.

Books by the Author

Shelley, Mary. The Annotated Frankenstein. Ed. Leonard Wolf. New York: Potter, 1977.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Contexts, Nineteenth-Century Responses, Criticism. Ed. J. Paul Hunter. New York: Norton, 1996.

Shelley, Mary W. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus. Ed. M.K. Joseph. London: Oxford UP, 1969.

Books about the Author

Baldick, Chris. In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1987.

Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Boston: Little, 1989.

Tropp, Martin. Mary Shelley's Monster. Boston: Houghton, 1976.

Walling, William A. Mary Shelley. New York: Twayne, 1972.

Anthologies
A citation to an anthology contains two parts:

1. The first part is the reference to the particular article, essay or chapter that you are using. It includes first the author and then the title.

2. The second part of the citation will be the reference to the book that the article appeared in. It includes the title of the book, the editor, the publication information, date and pages. The references below are not complete. They only show the book part of a citation. For more information, consult page 382 of A Writer's Reference.

The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel. Ed. George Levine and U.C. Knoepflmacher. Berkeley: U of California P, 1974.

Frankenstein. Ed. Johanna M. Smith. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2000.

Mary Shelly's Frankenstein: A Sourcebook. Ed. Timothy Morton. London: Routledge, 2002.

Web Sites

Voller, Jack G. "Mary Shelley." The Literary Gothic. 16 Feb. 2005. 8 Mar. 2005 <http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/mshelley.html>.
(Biographical, electronic texts, essays, reviews and links to other sites)

To find more articles and books not listed here, please visit the Library Handbook for English 112.