MSSU ENG272 - Spring 2025 Dashboard
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British Literature II: Revolution, Reaction, Reform examines British literature from the late eighteenth century to the present, a period that witnessed the American and French Revolutions, slave revolts such as the Haitian Revolution, a “revolution in female manners,” the Industrial Revolution, the twentieth-century revolutionary wave in Europe, as well as World War I and World War II, and, of course, artistic revolutions. We will consider how the authors and literary works of this period might be reacting to change, advocating for reform, or participating in literary revolutions—whether revolution is understood in the sense of “revolving” or of “revolting,” going full circle to return to a previous (more perfect?) time or experiencing/effecting a great alteration or rupture.
Access the works for annotations assignments in COVE Studio here: ENG 272, Spring 2025
The digital edition of Frankenstein for annotations and the map project can be found here: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)
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Paris is the capital of France, and it is a city well known for beautiful architecture and its art. This city appears in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein a couple times. During the first time it appears, The Creature is narrating the story and during his story, he watches this family that makes him feel safe. He finds that this family came from Paris, France, and shares the backstory of this family during his part of the novel. On another note, Paris appears again as a location that Frankenstein and his father stop at after his father takes Frankenstein back home from being imprisoned. Frankenstein was in prison in the first place because he was accused of the death of his friend Henry Clerval, and after Frankenstein...
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London is the capital of England and The United Kingdom and it also appears multiple times throughout Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. Robert Walton is a traveler, and he likely begins his journey starting from London as he mentions at the beginning of the novel that he is “already far north of London” as he is in St. Petersburg at the time of writing the first letter we see in the novel. Towards the middle of the book, Victor Frankenstein and his friend Henry Clerval take a sight-seeing...
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Dublin is a city in Ireland and this city is mentioned in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein towards the end of the novel. Victor Frankenstein, our protagonist, lands in an Irish jail after being accused of the death of his friend Henry Clerval. After his name is cleared, Frankenstein's father comes for him and they head to Dublin before leaving Ireland for good. As of 1801, Ireland and England were united by law. However, in the 1810's, there were conflicts between the Catholics and Protestants in Ireland. There was also a Protestant group in 1814 called "The Brotherhood of the Apprentance Boys of Derry" who had named themselves after the thirteen apprentices who shut the gates of Derry against the Catholics. In 1820, Henry IV was the king of both England and Ireland and he was also the...
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