Global frankenstein. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Carol Margaret Davison and Marie Mulvey-Roberts.
• Editors: Davison, Carol Margaret
• Other Names: Mulvey Roberts, Marie
• 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
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 823.7; Literature; Scientists -- Fiction; Monsters -- Fiction; Science fiction, English -- History and criticism; Horror tales, English -- History and criticism; Scientists in literature; Monsters in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism -- General; Literature: history & criticism; British literature; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Geneva (Switzerland) -- Fiction; Electronic books; Characters
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319781426; 3319781421
• Related ISBNs: 9783319781419
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 17, 2018).
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