To conclude our study of Frankenstein, this post will examine, with the help of StoryMapJS, the time period in which Mary Shelley created her tale. In 1816, Mary Shelley and her companions spent the summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, where the unusually gloomy weather kept them indoors much of the time. The dreary atmosphere may have fueled the group’s challenge to write ghost
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Tonight, our class attended a lecture given by Dr. Jacqueline Wernimont, Distinguished Chair of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement and Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College. Dr. Wernimont spoke about her project Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media. Dr. Wernimont used Scalar, which “is a free, open-source
This year marks the 200-year anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Although revised in later editions, our class is reading the original 1818 text as published by Broadview Press in 1999; edited by D. L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf. I have not read the later, more widely-known 1831 revision, but according to National Geographic, one of the chief differences is in the plot. The magazine notes
Robin Hood, the well-known hero of the poor who robs from the rich, has been the subject of numerous poems, stories, theatre shows, movies, and television series. Some stay close to legend, but others stray like the Disney version where Robin Hood is a talking, cartoon fox. Mel Brooks turns him in to an idiot (of course), and in 1967 someone thought it was a good idea to set the entire story
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