Record #1108 (edit record; developers only)

Date: June 1816

Event:

Byron (with his travelling physician John Polidori) and the Shelleys (with Claire Clairmont) rent neighboring houses on the shore of Lake Geneva at Cologny; they meet regularly at Byron's Villa Diodati, telling ghost stories for which Mary Shelley invented Frankenstein; Byron writes Canto III of Childe Harold; after touring the Alps and visiting the Chateau de Chillon with Percy Shelley, Byron leaves for Italy at the end of the year.

Work Title

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 

Poem 

Work2 Title

Frankenstein 

Novel 

Links for Percy Bysshe Shelley:

Early Shelley: Vulgarisms, Politics, and Fractals (Criticism of early Percy Bysshe Shelley; essays originating in a session on the Early Shelley at the Dec. 1996 Modern Language Association convention.) (Romantic Praxis)

The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Table of contents for the forthcoming print edition, edited by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat.) (Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat)

"On The Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci" (Transcription of the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem.) (Melissa J. Sites and Neil Fraistat)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (Links to numerous poems.) (The Poetry Archive)

Selected Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Transcriptions of 40 Shelley texts.) (Representative Poetry On-line)

Web Concordances: P. Shelley - Selected Poems (Concordance of Percy Bysshe Shelley's work.) (Rob Watt)

Robert M. Corbett, (U. Washington) The Violence of the Sacred: The Economy of Sacrifice in The Cenci (Criticism of Percy Bysshe Shelley's work.) (Romanticism on the Net)

Kim Wheatley, (C. William and Mary) "Romanticism and Conspiracy" (Criticism of Percy Bysshe Shelley.) (Romantic Praxis)

"Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats" (Transcriptions of the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem.) (Representative Poetry On-line)

"Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude" (Transcriptions of the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem.) (Representative Poetry On-line)

Mathilde Blinde, "Shelley's View of Nature Contrasted With Darwin's" (TEI-compliant transcriptions of the criticism of Percy Bysshe Shelley.) (Victorian Women's Writers Project)

"Defence of Poetry" (1821) (Transcription of Percy Bysshe Shelley's text.) (Representative Poetry On-line)

Keats-Shelley Journal (Notes and links to the literary journal.) (Loyola U., Chicago)

Notes to Queen Mab (Shelley's complete notes to his poem, minus Greek text.) (Stuart Curran)

"The Devil's Walk": A Hypertext Edition (Transcription of the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem.) (Donald E. Reiman and Neil Fraistat)

Percy Bysshe Shelley's Gothic Readings (Notes on the author's Gothic influences.) (Douglass Thomson)

The Necessity of Atheism (Transcription of the Percy Bysshe Shelley text.) (Secular Web)

Selected Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Transcriptions of five Shelley poems.) (Sonnet Central)

 

Links for Mary Shelley:

Contemporary Reviews (Links to contemporary reviews of Mary Shelley's work.) (Shanon Lawson)

Internet Resources, Mary Shelley (Links page)

Letters and Journals (excerpts) (Transcription of miscellaneous writings by Mary Shelley.) (Nelson Hilton)

Mary Shelley and Frankenstein (Biographical information.) (Kim Woodbridge)

Mary Shelley Chronology (Shanon Lawson)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Chronology & Resource Site (Various resources and links.) (Shanon Lawson)

Selected Bibliography (Bibliographical information on Mary Shelley.) (Shanon Lawson)

The Summer of 1816 (Notes on this period of Mary Shelley's life.) (Kim Woodbridge)

All Movie Versions of Frankenstein (Notes on the film versions of Mary Shelley's novel.) (Internet Movie Database)

Frankenstein (Hypertext transcription of Mary Shelley's novel.) (www.literature.org)

Frankenstein Revealed: Penn's Electronic Edition (Electronic version of Mary Shelley's novel.) (Stuart Curran)

Literary Sources of Frankenstein (Notes on the source material for Mary Shelley's novel.) (Kim Woodbridge)

Mary Shelley and Frankenstein Links (Links to criticism and other links.) (Kim Woodbridge)

Workshop of Filthy Creation, Cyberspace Division (Notes and links on U. Penn.'s electronic version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.) (Jack Lynch)

"Mary Godwin's Remonstrance" (1995) (Chapter from Hilton's book, Lexis Complexes: Literary Interventions; criticism on Mary Shelley included.) (Nelson Hilton)

Keats-Shelley Journal (Notes and links to the literary journal.) (Loyola U., Chicago)

The Last Man: A Hypertext Edition (Sophisticated hypertext version of the Mary Shelley novel.) (Steven E. Jones)

Betty T. Bennett, (American U.) Radical Imaginings: Mary Shelley's The Last Man (Critical work on Mary Shelley's novel.) (Steven E. Jones)

Lisa Hopkins, (Sheffield Hallam U.) Memory at the End of History: Mary Shelley's The Last Man (Criticism on the novel by Mary Shelley.) (Romanticism on the Net)

Morton D. Paley, Mary Shelley's The Last Man: Apocalypse Without Millennium (Criticism on the novel.) (Keats-Shelley Review)

"The Mortal Immortal: A Hypertext Edition" (Includes contextual material and critical apparatus on the work by Mary Shelley.) (Steven Jones)

Daniel E. White, 'The god undeified': Mary Shelley's Valperga, Italy, and the Aesthetic of Desire (Criticism.) (Romanticism on the Net)

Linda Garbin, (U. Liverpool) The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: Walter Scott in the Writings of Mary Shelley (Criticism.) (Romanticism on the Net)

 

Links for George Gordon, Lord Byron:

George Gordon, Lord Byron (Set of transcriptions of Byron's shorter poetry.) (The Poetry Archive)

Selected Poetry (Selected Poetry of George Gordon, Lord Byron. 26 poems.) (Representative Poetry On-line)

Andrew M. Stauffer, (U. Virginia) Romantic Anger and Byron's Curse (Criticism on George Gordon, Lord Byron.) (Romantic Praxis)

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Third (Partial transcription of George Gordon, Lord Byron's poem.) (Representative Poetry On-line)

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cantos I and II (Notes on the writing of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by George Gordon, Lord Byron.) (Carl Stahmer)

Hours of Idleness (Notes on the composition of George Gordon, Lord Byron's Fugitive Pieces and Hours of Idleness.) (Laura Mandell)

Manfred (Transcription of Lord Byron's dramatic poem.) (Jack G. Voller)

Byron's Gothic Readings (Notes on George Gordon, Lord Byron's Gothic influences.) (Douglass Thomson)

 

Links for Childe Harold's Pilgrimage:

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Third (Partial transcription of George Gordon, Lord Byron's poem.) (Representative Poetry On-line)

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cantos I and II (Notes on the writing of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by George Gordon, Lord Byron.) (Carl Stahmer)

 

Links for Frankenstein:

All Movie Versions of Frankenstein (Notes on the film versions of Mary Shelley's novel.) (Internet Movie Database)

Frankenstein (Hypertext transcription of Mary Shelley's novel.) (www.literature.org)

Frankenstein Revealed: Penn's Electronic Edition (Electronic version of Mary Shelley's novel.) (Stuart Curran)

Literary Sources of Frankenstein (Notes on the source material for Mary Shelley's novel.) (Kim Woodbridge)

Mary Shelley and Frankenstein Links (Links to criticism and other links.) (Kim Woodbridge)

Workshop of Filthy Creation, Cyberspace Division (Notes and links on U. Penn.'s electronic version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.) (Jack Lynch)

 

   

Record Created or Last Modified By:

Shawn Mummert

Date Last Modified:

6/27/1999


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