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Here is a list of all the allusions in the novel. 
You can search through the list to find the titles and texts: http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Indexes/works.html 

Or search by individual title...

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Coleridge http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Rime_Ancient_Mariner.html 
or 
http://www.studyguide.org/rime_of_the_ancient_mariner.htm 

“Mutability,” Percy Shelley      http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=311 

Ruins of Empires, Volney     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin-Fran%C3%A7ois_Chasseb%C5%93uf (entry on Voney's life, contains a few sentences on the book) 
or
http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Volney/volneytp.html

The Sorrows of Werter     http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/V2notes/werter.html

Paradise Lost, John Milton   http://www.paradiselost.org/5-sum-short.html
or
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/paradiselost/summary.html
or
http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Contexts/pl.html
or
http://www.webwinds.com/thalassa/adameve.htm#Paradise
or
 http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/links/index.shtml 

Plutarch’s Lives    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch#Parallel_Lives
or
http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Plutarch/lives.html 

Fun Stuff: 

Frankenstein: The Musical (I am not making this up!): http://www.frankensteinthemusical.com/.

The coolest site on the text of Frankenstein that I have ever found; it's packed with resources.   http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/index.html 

Scientific American video  http://www.pbs.org/saf/1209/video/watchonline.htm 
(Get some headphones from me so you can hear the sound on this. 
Click on the "Play Video" icon on the first story, "How to Make a Nose.")

Frankenstein: An Educated Animated Version: http://www.brainpop.com/english/famousauthorsandbooks/frankenstein/.

The Frankenstein Exhibit at the National Library of Medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frankhome.html.

The texts of the other ghost stories written by the guests at Lord Byron’s
manor when Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, etc.

Polidori, "The Vampyre" http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Polidori/vampyre.html 

Byron, "A Fragment" http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Byron/fragment.html