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Title:

Global Frankenstein / Carol Margaret Davison, Marie Mulvey-Roberts, editors.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xxvi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,--1797-1851.--Frankenstein.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,--1797-1851--Characters.
Frankenstein, Victor--(Fictitious character)
Frankenstein's Monster--(Fictitious character)
Frankenstein, Victor--(Fictitious character)
Frankenstein's Monster--(Fictitious character)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,--1797-1851.
Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft)
Geneva (Switzerland)--Fiction.
Scientists--Fiction.
Monsters--Fiction.
Science fiction, English--History and criticism.
Horror tales, English--History and criticism.
Scientists in literature.
Monsters in literature.
Literature: history & criticism.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
Characters and characteristics.
Horror tales, English.
Monsters.
Monsters in literature.
Science fiction, English.
Scientists.
Scientists in literature.
Switzerland--Geneva.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Fiction.

Other Authors:

Davison, Carol Margaret, editor.
Mulvey Roberts, Marie, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Intro; Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: Global Reanimations of Frankenstein; Works Cited; Part I: Frankenstein: Science, Technology, and the Nature of Life; Chapter 2: The Gothic Image and the Quandaries of Science in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Works Cited; Chapter 3: Paracelsus and 'P[r]etty Experimentalism': The Glass Prison of Science and Secrecy in Frankenstein; 'A Bird's Eye View of Your Heart': Godwin's Sentimental Education; Victor Frankenstein: Vision Versus Experiment
Paracelsus and Neoplatonic TraditionWorks Cited; Chapter 4: Monstrous Dissections and Surgery as Performance: Gender, Race and the Bride of Frankenstein; Works Cited; Part II: Frankenstein and Disabled, Indecorous, Mortal Bodies; Chapter 5: 'The Human Senses Are Insurmountable Barriers': Deformity, Sympathy, and Monster Love in Three Variations on Frankenstein; 'A Manuscript Found in a Madhouse' (1829); Young Frankenstein (1974); 'The Crimson Horror,' Doctor Who (2013); Works Cited; Chapter 6: 'We Sometimes Paused to Laugh Outright': Frankenstein and the Struggle for Decorum; Works Cited
Chapter 7: Monstrous, Mortal Embodiment and Last Dances: Frankenstein and the BalletWorks Cited; Part III: Spectacular Frankensteins on Screen and Stage; Chapter 8: 'Now I Am a Man!': Performing Sexual Violence in the National Theatre Production of Frankenstein; Works Cited; Chapter 9: The Cadaver's Pulse: Cinema and the Modern Prometheus; Montage and the Creation of New Life; Early Frankenstein: Cutting the Narrative and Re-cutting the Film; Whale's Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein; Transnational Frankenstein; Found Footage Frankenstein; Works Cited
Chapter 10: Promethean Myths of the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Frankenstein Film Adaptations and the Rise of the Viral ZombieContemporary Frankenstein Film Adaptations; Viral Zombies as Frankensteinian Dispersions; Works Cited; Part IV: Frankensteinian Illustrations and Literary Adaptations; Chapter 11: Frankenstein and the Peculiar Power of the Comics; The Monsters of Literature and Cinema; The Monster in Pictures; Words, Images and the Endless Life of a Monster; Works Cited; Chapter 12: Our Progeny's Monsters: Frankenstein Retold for Children in Picturebooks and Graphic Novels
Works CitedChapter 13: Beyond the Filthy Form: Illustrating Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; The (Illustrated) Redemption of a Forsaken Creature; 'My Own Vampire ... Let Loose from the Grave'; The Wildest Dreams; 'A Filthy Type of Yours'; 'I Bid My Hideous Progeny Go Forth and Prosper'; Frankenstein's Illustrated Editions; Works Cited; Part V: Futuristic Frankensteins/Frankensteinian Futures; Chapter 14: The Frankenstein Meme: The Memetic Prominence of Mary Shelley's Creature in Anglo-American Visual and Material Cultures; What's in a Meme?; Prometheus, Automata, and the Proto-Frankenstein

Series:

Studies in global science fiction

ISBN:

3319781413
9783319781419

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1065526697

LCCN:

2018950490

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)