Global frankenstein / edited by Carol Margaret Davison and Marie Mulvey-Roberts.
Margaret Davison, Carol, editor.; Mulvey Roberts, Marie, editor.
2018
PR5397.F73 .G563 2018
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Title
Global frankenstein / edited by Carol Margaret Davison and Marie Mulvey-Roberts.
ISBN
3319781421
9783319781426
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (351 pages).
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PR5397.F73 .G563 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
823.7
Summary
Consisting of sixteen original essays by experts in the field, including leading and lesser-known international scholars, Global Frankenstein considers the tremendous adaptability and rich afterlives of Mary Shelley's iconic novel, Frankenstein, at its bicentenary, in such fields and disciplines as digital technology, film, theatre, dance, medicine, book illustration, science fiction, comic books, science, and performance art. This ground-breaking, celebratory volume, edited by two established Gothic Studies scholars, reassesses Frankenstein's global impact for the twenty-first century across a myriad of cultures and nations, from Japan, Mexico, and Turkey, to Britain, Iraq, Europe, and North America. Offering compelling critical dissections of reincarnations of Frankenstein, a generically hybrid novel described by its early reviewers as a "bold," "bizarre," and "impious" production by a writer "with no common powers of mind", this collection interrogates its sustained relevance over two centuries during which it has engaged with such issues as mortality, global capitalism, gender, race, embodiment, neoliberalism, disability, technology, and the role of science. .
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Margaret Davison, Carol, editor.
Mulvey Roberts, Marie, editor.
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Studies in global science fiction.
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1. Introduction: Global Reanimations of Frankenstein
Part I Frankenstein: Science, Technology, and the Nature of Life
2. The Gothic Image and the Quandaries of Science in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
3. Paracelsus and the 'P[r]etty Experimentalism': The Glass Prison of Science and Secrecy in Frankenstein
4. Monstrous Dissections and Surgery as Performance: Gender, Race and the Bride of Frankenstein
Part II Frankenstein and Disabled, Indecorous, Mortal Bodies
5. 'The Human Senses Are Insurmountable Barriers': Deformity, Sympathy, and Monster Love in Three Variations on Frankenstein
6. 'We Sometimes Paused to Laugh Outright': Frankenstein and the Struggle for Decorum
7. Monstrous, Mortal Embodiment and Last Dances: Frankenstein and the Ballet
Part III Spectacular Frankensteins on Screen and Stage
8. 'Now I am a Man!': Performing Sexual Violence in the National Theatre Production of Frankenstein
9. The Cadaver's Pulse: Cinema and the Modern Prometheus
10. Promethean Myths of the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Frankenstein Film Adaptations and the Rise of the Viral Zombie
Part IV Frankensteinian Illustrations and Literary Adaptations
11. Frankenstein and the Peculiar Power of the Comics
12. Our Progeny's Monsters: Frankenstein Retold for Children in Picturebooks and Graphic Novels
13. Beyond the Filthy Form: Illustrating Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Part V Futuristic Frankensteins/Frankensteinian Futures
14. The Frankenstein Meme: The Memetic Prominence of Mary Shelley's Creature in Anglo-American Visual and Material Cultures
15. Frankenstein in Hyperspace: The Gothic Return of Digital Technologies to the Origins of Virtual Space in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
16. Playing the Intercorporeal: Frankenstein's Legacy for Games
17. What Was Man...? Reimagining Monstrosity from Humanism to Trashumanism.

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