Texts

Required Print Texts

These books are availbale for purchase at the UCen bookstore. Please be sure to buy the Norton Critical editions of the novels, as they contain assigned materials.

  • N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines
  • Mary Shelley,  Frankenstein, Norton Critical edition
  • Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Norton Critical edition

Digital Readings

The course readings include a number of online texts: both traditional print texts that can be found online and those written exclusively for use with a computer.

Principle among the digital texts is Shelley Jackson’s hypertext novel, Patchwork Girl.  This work is available in the Transcriptions studio.

See the course schedule for other digital texts.   Many of the online texts are password protected and must be viewed from a campus computer or from a computer with the proxy server configured.  Instructions for how to configure your proxy server can be found on the UCSB Library page here.

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