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** Attention ** Our final exam will be held Wednesday, May 13, at 8:00 am in Jenkins 204. See Final Review

** Attention ** We will be having conferences next week (5/4-5/8) Please check the schedule here  and email me to set up a time if you have missed class.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Background HW Q's  Poem HW Q's  Critical History HW Q's  Lyrical Ballads

Reader-Response Q's  Ferguson Q's  New Historicism Q's  Modiano Q's

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein HW Questions: Preface/Intro Part I Part II Part III Review Critical History Q's Psychoanalytic Q's Feminist Crit Q's Gender Crit Q's Marxist Crit Q's Cultural Crit Q's Collings Q's Smith Q's Michel Q's Montag Q's Zakharieva Q's Botting Q's Crit. Hist. Exercise Collings Exercise Smith Exercise Michel Exercise Paper Assignment See Sample Outline  and  Paper  University of Pennsylvania Collection of Essays on Frankenstein (original source ) The Novel (pdf) (html) Historical Context  (See another of her novels, The Last Man ) Read Sample Papers

Gothic Literature Glossary of Gothic Terms

Byron's Fragment "Augustus Darvell"     Alternative links: Homework Questions

Polidori's The Vampyre (intro) (text)(appendix)     Alternative links: Homework Questions