Frankenstein and its classics : the modern Prometheus from antiquity to science fiction / edited by Jesse Weiner, Benjamin Eldon Stevens and Brett M. Rogers.
Introduction. The Modern Prometheus turns 200 / Jesse Weiner, Benjamin Eldon Stevens and Brett M. Rogers. Part I. Promethean heat. Patchwork paratexts and monstrous metapoetics: "after tea M reads Ovid" / Genevieve Liveley -- Prometheus and Dr. Darwin's Vermicelli: another stir to the Frankenstein broth / Martin Priestman -- The Politics of revivification in Lucan's Bellum Civile and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Andrew McClellan -- Romantic Prometheis and the molding of Frankenstein / Suzanne L. Barnett -- Why "The Year without a Summer"? / David A. Gapp -- The sublime monster: Frankenstein, or the modern Pandora / Matthew Gumpert. Part II. Hideous progeny. Cupid and Psyche in Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Apuleian science fiction? / Benjamin Eldon Stevens -- "The pale student of unhallowed arts": Frankenstein, Aristotle, and the wisdom of Lucretius / Carl A. Rubino -- Timothy Leary and the psychodynamics of stealing fire / Nese Devenot -- Frankenfilm: classical monstrosity in Bill Morrison's Spark of Being / Jesse Weiner -- Alex Garland's Ex Machina or the modern epimetheus: science fiction after Mary Shelley / Emma Hammond -- The postmodern Prometheus and posthuman reproductions in science fiction / Brett M. Rogers.
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