The Afterlife of Frankenstein

The Afterlife of Frankenstein
Author: David Sandner
Publisher: Clockwork Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-09-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781941360798

A collection of short fiction and excerpts from speculative work inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Adapting Frankenstein

Adapting Frankenstein
Author: Dennis R. Cutchins
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2018-08-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1526108933

This edited collection explores the afterlife of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in theatre and film, radio, literature and graphics novels, making a substantial contribution to the field of adaptation studies.

Transmedia Creatures

Transmedia Creatures
Author: Francesca Saggini
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2018-10-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1684480620

On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures presents studies of Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television studies, English and digital humanities. These innovative contributions investigate the afterlives of a novel taught in a disparate array of courses - Frankenstein disturbs and transcends boundaries, be they political, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and not least of media, ensuring its vibrant presence in contemporary popular culture. Transmedia Creatures highlights how cultural content is redistributed through multiple media, forms and modes of production (including user-generated ones from “below”) that often appear synchronously and dismantle and renew established readings of the text, while at the same time incorporating and revitalizing aspects that have always been central to it. The authors engage with concepts, value systems and aesthetic-moral categories—among them the family, horror, monstrosity, diversity, education, risk, technology, the body—from a variety of contemporary approaches and highly original perspectives, which yields new connections. Ultimately, Frankenstein, as evidenced by this collection, is paradoxically enriched by the heteroglossia of preconceptions, misreadings, and overreadings that attend it, and that reveal the complex interweaving of perceptions and responses it generates. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

The Making of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The Making of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Author: Daisy Hay
Publisher: Making of
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781851244867

'Invention ... does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos'- Mary ShelleyIn the 200 years since its first publication, the story of Frankenstein's creation during stormy days and nights at Byron's Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva has become literary legend. In this book, Daisy Hay returns to the objects and manuscripts of the novel's genesis in order to assemble its story anew.Frankenstein was inspired by the extraordinary people surrounding the eighteen-year-old author and by the places and historical dramas that formed the backdrop of her youth. Featuring manuscripts, portraits, illustrations and artefacts, The Making of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein explores the novel's time and place, its people, the relics of its long afterlife and the notebooks in which it was created. Hay strips Frankenstein back to its constituent parts revealing an uneven novel written by a young woman deeply engaged in the process of working out what she thought about the pressing issues of her time: science, politics, religion, slavery, maternity, the imagination, creativity and community. This is a compelling and innovative biography of the novel for all those fascinated by its essential, brilliant chaos.

Global Frankenstein

Global Frankenstein
Author: Carol Margaret Davison
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2018-10-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3319781421

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.

The Frankenstein Condition

The Frankenstein Condition
Author: Robert B. Smith
Publisher: Freshly Pressed Publishing
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1775170128

The Frankstein Condition is an engaging, self-deprecating and often funny look at our modern day tendency to construct our identities and expectations around what we see as the best of others. Much like Victor Frankenstein, we create our monsters from pieces of the people around us. People who we admire: celebrities, family, friends and social media. As with Victors creation, our monster is destructive and brings with it anxiety and depression. This book explores topics like: envy, jealousy, self-image, peer influence, drug shaming, self-medication and of course, monsters. This edition of The Frankenstein Condition includes the incredible illustrations of legendary artist Bernie Wrightson. They are taken from his 1983 Frankenstein adaptation of the original Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley. It included an introduction by Stephen King and approximately 50 detailed pen-and-ink illustrations. Wrightson spent seven years on the illustrations for this passion project. He is also remembered for his work on illustrated versions of Stephen King books, creature design for Ghostbusters and the co-creation of the Swamp Thing.

Frankenstein: The Dead Town

Frankenstein: The Dead Town
Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2011-05-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0553593684

Dean Koontz’s enthralling Frankenstein series has redefined the classic legend of infernal ambition and harrowing retribution for a new century and a new age. Now the master of suspense delivers an unforgettable novel that is at once a thrilling adventure in itself and a mesmerizing conclusion to his saga of the modern monsters among us. FRANKENSTEIN: THE DEAD TOWN The war against humanity is raging. As the small town of Rainbow Falls, Montana, comes under siege, scattered survivors come together to weather the onslaught of the creatures set loose upon the world. As they ready for battle against overwhelming odds, they will learn the full scope of Victor Frankenstein’s nihilistic plan to remake the future—and the terrifying reach of his shadowy, powerful supporters. Now the good will make their last, best stand. In a climax that will shatter every expectation, their destinies and the fate of humanity hang in the balance.

Frankenstein: Dead and Alive

Frankenstein: Dead and Alive
Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2009-07-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0553907433

From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now the mesmerizing saga concludes. . . . As a devastating hurricane approaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin to spin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with Victor’s first, failed attempt to build the perfect human. Deucalion’s centuries-old history began as the original manifestation of a soulless vision–and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor’s malignant mind could have conceived–an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind’s collective nightmare with powers, and a purpose, beyond imagining. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City.

The Cambridge Companion to `Frankenstein'

The Cambridge Companion to `Frankenstein'
Author: Andrew Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2016-08-25
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1107086191

Sixteen original essays by leading scholars on Mary Shelley's novel provide an introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical contexts.

Frankenstein

Frankenstein
Author: Mary Shelley
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2007-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781598898309

Victor Frankenstein must stop his creation before something bad happens.