Global Frankenstein

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Davison, Carol Margaret (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mulvey-Roberts, Marie (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Studies in Global Science Fiction,
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-19th century.; British literature.; Literature-History and criticism.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; Literary History.

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 discipline...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.