Frankenstein (1818): The Norton Critical Edition

Frankenstein, Second Edition
Norton Critical Editions
Mary Shelley (Author), J. Paul Hunter (Editor, University of Chicago)
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/webad.aspx?id=21895

Paperback
Book Details
Retail: $17.50
December 2011
ISBN: 978-0-393-92793-1
544 pages



Description:

The best-selling student edition on the market, now available in a Second Edition.

Almost two centuries after its publication, Frankenstein remains an indisputably classic text and Mary Shelley’s finest work.

This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes new texts and illustrative materials that convey the enduring global conversation about Frankenstein and its author. The text is that of the 1818 first edition, published in three volumes by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones. It is accompanied by an expansive new preface, explanatory annotations, a map of Geneva and its environs, and seven illustrations, five of them new to the Second Edition.

Context is provided in three supporting sections: “Circumstance, Influence, Composition, Revision,” “Reception, Impact, Adaptation,” and “Sources, Influences, Analogues.” Among the Second Edition’s new inclusions are historical-cultural studies by Susan Tyler Hitchcock, William St. Clair, and Elizabeth Young; Chris Baldrick on the novel’s reception; and David Pirie on the novel’s many film adaptations. Related excerpts from the Bible and from John Milton’s Paradise Lost are now included, as is Charles Lamb’s poem “The Old Familiar Faces.”

“Criticism” collects sixteen major interpretations of Frankenstein, nine of them new to the Second Edition. The new contributors are Peter Brooks, Bette London, Garrett Stewart, James. A. W. Heffernan, Patrick Brantlinger, Jonathan Bate, Anne Mellor, Jane Goodall, and Christa Knellwolf.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.



Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

The Text of Frankenstein

map: Geneva and Its Environs

Title page (1818)

Dedication (1818)

Preface

Frankenstein


Contexts

CIRCUMSTANCE, INFLUENCE, COMPOSITION, REVISION

• Mary Shelley • Introduction to Frankenstein, Third Edition (1831)
• John William Polidori • Letter Prefaced to The Vampyre (1819)
• M. K. Joseph • The Composition of Frankenstein
• Chris Baldick • [Assembling Frankenstein]
• Richard Holmes • [Mary Shelley and the Power of Contemporary Science]
• Christa Knellwolf and Jane Goodall • [The Significance of Place: Ingolstadt]
• Charles E. Robinson • Texts in Search of an Editor: Reflections on The Frankenstein Notebooks and on Editorial Authority
• Anne K. Mellor • Choosing a Text of Frankenstein to Teach

RECEPTION, IMPACT, ADAPTATION

• Percy Bysshe Shelley • On Frankenstein
• [John Croker] • From the Quarterly Review (January 1818)
• Sir Walter Scott • From Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (March 1818)
• Edinburgh Magazine • [On Frankenstein] (March 1818)
• Gentleman’s Magazine • [On Frankenstein] (April 1818)
• Knight’s Quarterly • [On Frankenstein] (August–November 1824)
• Hugh Reginald Haweis • Introduction to the Routledge World Library Edition (1886)
• Chris Baldick • [The Reception of Frankenstein]
• William St. Clair • [Frankenstein’s Impact]
• Susan Tyler Hitchcock • [The Monster Lives On]
• Elizabeth Young • [Frankenstein as Historical Metaphor]
• David Pirie • Approaches to Frankenstein [in Film]

SOURCES, INFLUENCES, ANALOGUES

• The Book of Genesis • [Biblical Account of Creation]
• John Milton • From Paradise Lost
• Percy Bysshe Shelley • Mont Blanc (1816)
• [The Sea of Ice] (1817)
• Mutability
• George Gordon, Lord Byron • Prometheus
• Darkness
• From Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816)
• Charles Lamb • The Old Familiar Faces 

Criticism

George Levine • Frankenstein and the Tradition of Realism

Ellen Moers • Female Gothic: The Monster’s Mother

Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar • Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Eve

Mary Poovey • “My Hideous Progeny”: The Lady and the Monster

Anne K. Mellor • Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein

Peter Brooks • What Is a Monster? (According to Frankenstein)

Bette London • Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Spectacle of Masculinity

Marilyn Butler • Frankenstein and Radical Science

Lawrence Lipking • Frankenstein, the True Story; or, Rousseau Judges Jean-Jacques

Garrett Stewart • In the Absence of Audience: Of Reading and Dread in Mary Shelley

James A. W. Heffernan • Looking at the Monster: Frankenstein and Film

Patrick Brantlinger • The Reading Monster

Jonathan Bate • [Frankenstein and the State of Nature]

Anne K. Mellor • Frankenstein, Racial Science, and the Yellow Peril

Jane Goodall • Electrical Romanticism

Christa Knellwolf • Geographic Boundaries and Inner Space: Frankenstein, Scientific Exploration, and the Quest for the Absolute


Mary Shelley: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography

Glut's The Frankenstein Archive

From the master of Frankensteiniana:

The Frankenstein Archive: Essays on the Monster, the Myth, the Movies, and More
Donald F. Glut
http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-1353-9

Price: $35.00
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-1353-9
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8069-2
55 photos, index
233pp. softcover (6 x 9) 2002
Available for immediate shipment


About the Book

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818, started a phenomeon that has survived the years and permeated many aspects of popular culture. It has spawned numerous films, television programs, books, comics, stage presentations, and the like, and continues to do so today.

Like the Frankenstein Monster, this work is made up of many individual parts, some of which are quite different in their specific themes, but all of which relate to Frankenstein in some way. They consider the untold true story of Frankenstein, Glenn Strange’s portrayals of the Monster, the portrayals of lesser-known actors who played the character, Peter Cushing and his role as Baron (and Dr.) Frankenstein, the classic film Young Frankenstein co-written by Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder (who also starred in it), the battles between do-gooders and the Monster and other horror figures, Frankenstein in cartoons—and much more.

Each of the 15 essays, all written by the author, is prefaced with explanatory notes that place the essay in its historical perspective, comment on its origin and content, and where appropriate, supplement the text with new, additional, or otherwise relevant information. Richly illustrated.



Table of Contents

Preface 1

1 Frankenstein: The (Untold) True Story 5

2 The "Strange" Frankenstein Monster 34

3 A Forgotten Frankenstein? 49

4 Peter Cushing: "Dr. Frankenstein, I Presume" 58

5 Young Frankenstein--Classic in the Making 66

6 Super-Heroes vs. Frankenstein (and Company) 81

7 "What’s Up, Doc Frankenstein (Jekyll and Fu Manchu)?" 96

8 The Beatles Meet Frankenstein 112

9 A Score of Frankenstein Misconceptions 117

10 Frankenstein on the Home-Movie Screen 138

11 "This Is Your Life, Frankenstein’s Monster" 152

12 Frankenstein Sings-and Dances, Too 157

13 Frankenstein in Four Colors 164

14 The Monster of Frankenstein (Almost) Returns 189

15 The New Adventures of Frankenstein 202

Index 217



About the Author

Donald F. Glut is a prolific book and article writer, and movie producer-director. He is the president of Frontline Entertainment and lives in Burbank, California.

Friedman and Kavey's Monstrous Progeny

Monstrous Progeny: A History of the Frankenstein Narratives
By Lester D. Friedman, Allison B. Kavey
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/monstrous-progeny/9780813564234




256 pages, 37 photographs, 152.4 x 228.6

Paperback,August 1, 2016,$27.95
978-0-8135-6423-4

Cloth Over Boards,August 1, 2016,$90.00
978-0-8135-6424-1

PDF,August 1, 2016,$27.95
978-0-8135-6425-8

EPUB,August 1, 2016,$27.95
978-0-8135-7370-0


About This Book

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale so adaptable and so resilient that, nearly 200 years later, it remains vitally relevant in a culture radically different from the one that spawned its birth?

Monstrous Progeny takes readers on a fascinating exploration of the Frankenstein family tree, tracing the literary and intellectual roots of Shelley’s novel from the sixteenth century and analyzing the evolution of the book’s figures and themes into modern productions that range from children’s cartoons to pornography. Along the way, media scholar Lester D. Friedman and historian Allison B. Kavey examine the adaptation and evolution of Victor Frankenstein and his monster across different genres and in different eras. In doing so, they demonstrate how Shelley’s tale and its characters continue to provide crucial reference points for current debates about bioethics, artificial intelligence, cyborg lifeforms, and the limits of scientific progress.

Blending an extensive historical overview with a detailed analysis of key texts, the authors reveal how the Frankenstein legacy arose from a series of fluid intellectual contexts and continues to pulsate through an extraordinary body of media products. Both thought-provoking and entertaining, Monstrous Progeny offers a lively look at an undying and significant cultural phenomenon.


Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Singing the Body Electric

1 In a Country of Eternal Light: Frankenstein’s Intellectual History

2 The Instruments of Life: Frankenstein’s Medical History

3 A More Horrid Contrast: From the Page to the Stage

4 It’s Still Alive: The Universal and Hammer Movie Cycles

5 The House of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley’s Step Children

6 Fifty Ways to Leave Your Monster

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index



About the Authors

LESTER D. FRIEDMAN is a professor and former chair of the Media and Society Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of over twenty books including American Cinema of the 1970s (Rutgers University Press) and the forthcoming, Tough Ain’t Enough.

ALLISON B. KAVEY is an associate professor of early modern history at CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, New York. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of several books including Second Star to the Right: Peter Pan in the Cultural Imagination, co-edited with Friedman (Rutgers University Press).

Picart on Frankenstein from 2003

A final one for the night:

Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film: Between Laughter and Horror
Caroline Joan S. Picart - Author
SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture
http://www.sunypress.edu/p-3777-remaking-the-frankenstein-myth-.aspx

Hardcover - 268 pages
Release Date: July 2003
ISBN10: 0-7914-5769-9
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5769-6

Price: $33.95 (listed as Out of Print)
Paperback - 268 pages
Release Date: July 2003
ISBN10: 0-7914-5770-2
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5770-2

Available as a Google eBook for other eReaders and tablet devices.


Summary 

Explores how filmmakers and screenwriters have used comedy and science fiction to extend the boundaries of the Frankenstein narrative.

Focusing on films outside the horror genre, this book offers a unique account of the Frankenstein myth's popularity and endurance. Although the Frankenstein narrative has been a staple in horror films, it has also crossed over into other genres, particularly comedy and science fiction, resulting in such films as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Bladerunner, and the Alien and Terminator film series. In addition to addressing horror's relationship to comedy and science fiction, the book also explores the versatility and power of the Frankenstein narrative as a contemporary myth through which our deepest attitudes concerning gender (masculine versus feminine), race (Same versus Other), and technology (natural versus artificial) are both revealed and concealed. The book not only examines the films themselves, but also explores early drafts of film scripts, scenes that were cut from the final releases, publicity materials, and reviews, in order to consider more fully how and why the Frankenstein myth continues to resonate in the popular imagination.

“…invites readers to explore an innovative take on horror film genres and gender. Picart’s exploration of the three shadows as well as her claim that hybrid forms of horror create opportunities for empowerment pose for the interested reader a challenge: to expand and adapt her insights in our own hybrid explorations of gender and film.” — Women and Language

"Picart tells a story of the story of every film in a gifted way; this takes talent, as well as a thorough familiarity with the films and a genuine enthusiasm for them." — Joseph Natoli, author of Memory's Orbit: Film and Culture 1999–2000

"Picart displays an assurance and command of a complex historical and critical field, which she handles with considerable focus and lucidity. She argues that the fairly rigid sexual politics of the earlier, classic Frankenstein films give way to a more complex set of visions when taken up in various comic and science fiction treatments. Her work is more than a mere commentary on earlier scholarship—it is a real advance and stands on its own as the book to read." — Thomas W. Benson, coauthor of Reality Fictions: The Films of Frederick Wiseman

Caroline Joan S. Picart is Assistant Professor of English and Humanities and Courtesy Assistant Professor of Law at Florida State University. She is the author of The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein: Universal, Hammer, and Beyond and the coauthor (with Frank Smoot and Jayne Blodgett) of The Frankenstein Film Sourcebook.



Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Frankenstein as Enduring Cinemyth

2. (Un)Leashing Laughter: Gender, Power, and Humor

3. Daemonic Dread

4. On the Edge of Terror and Humor

5. Postmodern Horror-Hilarity

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author

Index

Picart on Film from 2001

More for the bookshelf:

The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein: Universal, Hammer, and Beyond
by Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart
http://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=C3941C


Showcases the versatility of the Frankenstein myth as expressed in the horror genre and provides a sustained critical analysis of the story's evolution over many decades, many studios, and many different styles of filmmaking.

October 2001
Praeger
Pages: 240
Volumes: 1
Size: 6 1/8x9 1/4
Topics: Popular Culture/Film

Hardcover
978-0-275-97363-6
$84.00


Description

The Frankenstein narrative is one of cinema's most durable, and it is often utilized by the studio system and the most renegade independents alike to reveal our deepest aspirations and greatest anxieties. The films have concerned themselves with demarcations of gender, race, and technology, and this new study aims to critique the more traditional interpretations of both the narrative and its sustained popularity. From James Whale's Frankenstein (1931) through Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), the story remains a nuanced and ultimately ambivalent one and is discussed here in all of its myriad terms: aesthetic, cultural, psychological, and mythic.

Beginning with an examination of the narrative's origins in the myth of the birth of Dionysus from the thigh of Zeus, The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein goes on to consider each of the film's many incarnations, from the Universal horror films of the thirties through the British Hammer series and beyond. Moving easily between the scholarly and the popular, the book employs both primary texts-including scripts, posters, and documentation of production histories-and a rigorous, scholarly examination of the many implications of this often-misunderstood subgenre of horror cinema.


Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Envisaging the Monstrous

The Universal Series

Beyond the Universal and Hammer Series

Mythic (Im)Mortality

BibliographyIndex

For the bookshelf: The Frankenstein Film Sourcebook

A valuable resource:

The Frankenstein Film Sourcebook
by Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart, Frank Smoot, Jayne Blodgett
http://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=B3656C



A compilation of primary and secondary information on the numerous and multifarious film incarnations of the Frankenstein narrative, ranging across horror, comedy, science fiction, pornography, and animation.


June 2001
Greenwood
Pages: 368
Volumes: 1
Size: 6 1/8x9 1/4
Topics: Popular Culture/Film

Hardcover
978-0-313-31350-9
$75.00

eBook
978-0-313-01672-1
eBook Available from ABC-CLIO


Description

The endurance of the Frankenstein narrative as a modern cinematic myth is undeniable. Its flexibility has produced classic and contemporary horror film-most notably the Universal films of the thirties-but it has also resulted in unusual hybrids, such as musical horror-comedy (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), hyperbolic parody (Flesh for Frankenstein), and science fiction (the Alien and Terminator series). This sourcebook provides a complete guide to all of the story's filmic incarnations-including essential information such as cast, creative personnel, and plot summaries-and also guides the reader to relevant primary texts such as scripts, posters, production histories, and newspaper clippings. Utilizing an approach that is both popular and scholarly, and including spotlight essays that deal with contemporary academic approaches to the subject, The Frankenstein Film Sourcebook reveals the depth of the cinematic range of interpretations of a classic modern myth.

Comprehensive in its scope, The Frankenstein Film Sourcebook provides an alphabetical guide to two hundred films that incorporate the Frankenstein narrative. It also delves into both primary and secondary perspectives and includes discussions of aspects of the films, such as their depiction of women, which is relevant to current scholarly critiques.


Contents

Foreword by Noël Carroll

Introduction by Caroline Joan S. Picart

A Note on the Entries

An Alphabetical Listing of Frankenstein Films

Appendix One: General Texts on Frankenstein Films

Appendix Two: "Body Parts" Films

Appendix Three: "Re-Animation" Films

Must Read: The Endurance of Frankenstein

The work that begin the discipline of Frankenstein Studies in 1979:

The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel
George Levine (Editor), U. C. Knoepflmacher (Editor)
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520046405

Available worldwide
Paperback, 362 pages
ISBN: 9780520046405
May 1982
$33.95, £27.95


Description:

MARY SHELLEY's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus grew out of a parlor game and a nightmare vision. The story of the book's origin is a famous one, first told in the introduction Mary Shelley wrote for the 1831 edition of the novel. The two Shelleys, Byron, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont, and John William Polidori (Byron's physician) spent a "wet, ungenial summer in the Swiss Alps." Byron suggested that "each write a ghost story." If one is to trust Mary Shelley's account (and James Rieger has shown the untrustworthiness of its chronology and particulars), only she and "poor Polidori" took the contest seriously. The two "illustrious poets," according to her, "annoyed by the platitude of prose, speedily relinquished their uncongenial task." Polidori, too, is made to seem careless, unable to handle his story of a "skull-headed lady." Though Mary Shelley is just as deprecating when she speaks of her own "tiresome unlucky ghost story," she also suggests that its sources went deeper. Her truant muse became active as soon as she fastened on the "idea" of "making only a transcript of the grim terrors of my waking dream": "'I have found it! What terrified me will terrify others."' The twelve essays in this collection attest to the endurance of Mary Shelley's "waking dream." Appropriately, though less romantically, this book also grew out of a playful conversation at a party. When several of the contributors to this book discovered that they were all closet aficionados of Mary Shelley's novel, they decided that a book might be written in which each contributor-contestant might try to account for the persistent hold that Frankenstein continues to exercise on the popular imagination. Within a few months, two films--Warhol's Frankenstein and Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein--and the Hall-Landau and Isherwood-Bachardy television versions of the novel appeared to remind us of our blunted purpose. These manifestations were an auspicious sign and resulted in the book Endurance of Frankenstein.



Contents:

Detailed contents list from WorldCat (http://www.worldcat.org/title/endurance-of-frankenstein-essays-on-mary-shelleys-novel/oclc/5133230), the press's website only presents the major sections.

List of Illustrations

Preface

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley and Frankenstein: A Chronology

[Part I. Traditions : looking forwards and backwards] Ambiguous heritage of Frankenstein / George Levine. Frankenstein as mystery play / Judith Wilt. Fire and ice in Frankenstein / Andrew Griffin --

[Part II. Biographical soundings : of mothers and daughters] Female Gothic / Ellen Moers. Thoughts on the aggression of daughters / U.C. Knoepflmacher --

[Part III. Contexts : society and self] Monsters in the garden : Mary Shelley and the bourgeois family / Kate Ellis. Mary Shelley's monster : politics and psyche in Frankenstein / Lee Sterrenburg. Vital artifice : Mary, Percy, and the psychopolitical integrity of Frankenstein / Peter Dale Scott --

[Part IV. Texture : language and the grotesque] "Godlike science / unhallowed arts" : language, nature and monstrosity / Peter Brooks. Frankenstein and comedy / Philip Stevick --

[Part V. Visual progeny : drama and film] Stage and film children of Frankenstein : a survey / Albert J. Lavalley. Coming to life : Frankenstein and the nature of film narrative / William Nestrick.

Appendix: "Face to face" : of man-apes, monsters, and readers.

Contributors
Selected Annotated Bibliography
Index

Essential Resource: Approaches to Teaching Shelley’s Frankenstein

Approaches to Teaching Shelley’s Frankenstein
Editor: Stephen C. Behrendt
https://www.mla.org/Publications/Bookstore/Approaches-to-Teaching-World-Literature/Approaches-to-Teaching-Shelley-s-Frankenstein

Pages: x & 190 pp.
Published: 1990
Approaches to Teaching World Literature
ISBN: 9780873525398 (Cloth)
ISBN: 9780873525404 (Paperback)


Description

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is both a literary work very much rooted in its age and a cultural artifact that transcends period. “Undeniably one of the great and influential works of the English Romantic period,” writes the editor, Stephen C. Behrendt, the novel provides “an excellent vehicle for introducing students to the complexities of Romantic art and thought.” At the same time, as this volume demonstrates, Frankenstein is often studied in college and secondary school courses focusing not on Romanticism but on science fiction, Gothic fiction, women’s literature, or film and popular culture.

The book, like others in the MLA’s Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, is divided into two parts. The first part, “Materials,” reviews editions of Frankenstein, discusses reference and critical works and recommended reading for students, and lists selected film versions of the novel. In the second part, “Approaches,” instructors present classroom strategies for teaching the novel. The essays are divided into four groupings: general issues (e.g., choosing a text, gender and pedagogy, language and style), contexts of study (e.g., biography, Romanticism), course contexts (e.g., science fiction, women’s studies, composition), and Frankenstein and film.


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CFP Organic Machines/Engineered Humans: (Re)Defining Humanity (Spring 2018 issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities) (11/15/2017)

Of related interest:

Organic Machines/Engineered Humans: (Re)Defining Humanity
Spring 2018 issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities
Announcement published by Dore' Ripley on Monday, August 7, 2017
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/189910/spring-2018-issue-interdisciplinary-humanities
(and additional information from http://www.h-e-r-a.org/hera_call.htm)

Type: Call for Papers
Date: November 15, 2017

From E.T.A Hoffmann’s Tales of Hoffmann and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep to Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot and Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End authors have been exploring the human/machine interface since before the computer age. Today we stand on the threshold to the lab as the government contemplates microchipping all U.S. military personnel and Swedish office workers are already implanting themselves for convenience ala M.T. Anderson's Feed. A 2014 study conducted by Cisco Systems found approximately one-quarter of the white-collar professionals surveyed “would leap at the chance to get a surgical brain implant that allowed them to instantly link their thoughts to the Internet”. We are already experimenting with gene therapy, cybernetics via cochlear implants and many other technical organic enhancements, autonomous self-replicating robots, nanotechnology, mind uploading, and artificial intelligence.

The Spring 2018 edition of Interdisciplinary Humanities wants to consider topics focused on transhumanism, the singularity, and the arrival of the bio-engineered human/machine interface and what it means for the humanities as we redefine identity, pedagogy, humanity, class structure, literature (past, present, and future) and the diversity of our species. We invite papers in disciplines and areas of study. Multiple disciplines will help us understand and grapple with how we will redefine identity and the diversity of our species through the dynamic interplay of humanity and the acceleration of technology.

The Humanities Education and Research Association, Interdisciplinary Humanities’ parent organization, requires that authors become members of HERA if their essays are accepted for publication. Information on membership may be found at:http://www.h-e-r-a.org/hera_join.htm.


Contact Info:

For more information contact: Doré' Ripley, HERA (Humanities Education and Research Association)

Contact Email: dore.ripley@gmail.com
URL: http://www.h-e-r-a.org/hera_call.htm