Global Frankenstein
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Global Frankenstein
（Studies in global science fiction）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
Table of Contents
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 Gonzalez Moreno and Fernando Gonzalez 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
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