Sharon Achinstein, “Citizen Milton”
Lawrence Buell, “Toxic Discourse”
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (excerpt)
Byron, “Darkness”
Siobhan Carroll, “Crusades Against Frost: Frankenstein, Polar Ice, and Climate Change in 1818”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Christabel”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, unassigned lecture notes [Milton and Paradise Lost]
Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny”
William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (vol. 1, book 1, chapters 3 and 4)
William Godwin, “Essay on Sepulchres”
Ihab Hassan, “Prometheus as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture?”
Daisy Hay, Young Romantics (excerpt)
Julia Kristeva, “Approaching Abjection,” from Powers of Horror
John Marks, “Clone Stories: ‘Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder‘”
Keith McDonald, “Days of Past Futures: ‘Never Let Me Go’ as ‘Speculative Memoir’”
Robert Mitchell, “Suspended Animation, Slow Time, and the Poetics of Trance”
Masahiro Mori, “The Uncanny Valley”
Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology (excerpt)
Vladimir Nabokov, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
Joyce Carol Oates, “Frankenstein‘s Fallen Angel”
Mary Poovey, “‘My Hideous Progeny’: The Lady and the Monster”
Mary Shelley, “On Ghosts”
Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mont Blanc”
Anne Stiles, “Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde and the Double Brain”
Anya Taylor, “Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’ and the Phantom Soul”
Joseph Wittreich, Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings, “Preface”
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (chapter 6)
Gillen D’Arcy Wood, “1816, The Year Without a Summer”