Global Frankenstein

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.

Auteur

Carol Margaret Davison is Professor of English Literature at the University of Windsor, Canada and the author of History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature, 1764-1824 (2009) and Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). She recently edited The Gothic and Death (2017) and The Edinburgh Companion to the Scottish Gothic (2017) with Monica Germanà.

Marie Mulvey-Roberts is Professor of English Literature at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK and author of Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal (2016), winner of the Alan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. She has authored, edited, and co-edited over 30 books. Recently she made a film on Frankenstein for a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on the literary South West.

Contenu

Introduction: Global Reanimations of Frankenstein

Carol Margaret Davison and Marie Mulvey-Roberts

FRANKENSTEIN - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE NATURE OF LIFE

1. The Gothic Image and the Quandaries of Science in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Jerrold E. Hogle

2. Paracelsus and the '[p[r]etty experimentalism': the Glass Prison of Science and Secrecy in Frankenstein

Victor Sage

3. Monstrous Dissections and Surgery as Performance: Gender, Race and the Bride of Frankenstein

Marie Mulvey-Roberts

FRANKENSTEIN AND DISABLED, INDECOROUS, MORTAL BODIES

4. 'The human senses are insurmountable barriers': Deformity, Sympathy and Monster Love in Three Variations on Frankenstein

Bruce Wyse

5. 'We sometimes paused to laugh outright': Frankenstein and the Struggle for Decorum

Carolyn D. Williams

6. Monstrous, Mortal Embodiment and Last Dances: Frankenstein and the Ballet Carol Margaret Davison

SPECTACULAR FRANKENSTEINS ON SCREEN AND STAGE

7. 'Now I am a Man!': Performing Sexual Violence in the National Theatre Production of Frankenstein

Courtney A. Hoffman

8. The Cadaver's Pulse: Cinema and the Modern Prometheus

Scott MacKenzie

9. Promethean Myths of the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Frankenstein Film Adaptations and the Rise of the Viral Zombie

Xavier Aldana Reyes

FRANKENSTEINIAN ILLUSTRATIONS AND LITERARY ADAPTATIONS

10. Frankenstein and the Peculiar Power of the Comics

Scott Bukatman

11. Our Progeny's Monsters: Frankenstein Retold for Children in Picturebooks and Graphic Novels

Emily Alder

12. Beyond the Filthy Form: Illustrating Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Beatriz González Moreno and Fernando González Moreno

FUTURISTIC FRANKENSTEINS/FRANKENSTEINIAN FUTURES

13. The Frankenstein Meme: The Memetic Prominence of Mary Shelley's Creature in Anglo-American Visual and Material Cultures

Shannon Rollins

14. Frankenstein in Hyperspace: The Gothic Return of Digital Technologies to the Origins of Virtual Space in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Kirstin Mills

15. Playing the Intercorporeal: Frankenstein's Legacy for Games

Tanya Krzywinska

16. 'What was Man...?': Reimagining Monstrosity from Humanism to Trashumanism

Fred Botting

17. Afterword-Meditation on the Monster

David Punter