Global Frankenstein

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvi Introduction: Global Reanimations of Frankenstein (Carol Margaret Davison, Marie Mulvey-Roberts)....Pages 1-17 Front Matter ....Pages 19-19 The Gothic Image and the Quandaries of Science in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Jerrold E. Hogle)....Pages 21-35 Paracelsus and ‘P[r]etty Experimentalism’: The Glass Prison of Science and Secrecy in Frankenstein (Victor Sage)....Pages 37-52 Monstrous Dissections and Surgery as Performance: Gender, Race and the Bride of Frankenstein (Marie Mulvey-Roberts)....Pages 53-71 Front Matter ....Pages 73-73 ‘The Human Senses Are Insurmountable Barriers’: Deformity, Sympathy, and Monster Love in Three Variations on Frankenstein (Bruce Wyse)....Pages 75-90 ‘We Sometimes Paused to Laugh Outright’: Frankenstein and the Struggle for Decorum (Carolyn D. Williams)....Pages 91-107 Monstrous, Mortal Embodiment and Last Dances: Frankenstein and the Ballet (Carol Margaret Davison)....Pages 109-129 Front Matter ....Pages 131-131 ‘Now I Am a Man!’: Performing Sexual Violence in the National Theatre Production of Frankenstein (Courtney A. Hoffman)....Pages 133-147 The Cadaver’s Pulse: Cinema and the Modern Prometheus (Scott MacKenzie)....Pages 149-166 Promethean Myths of the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Frankenstein Film Adaptations and the Rise of the Viral Zombie (Xavier Aldana Reyes)....Pages 167-182 Front Matter ....Pages 183-183 Frankenstein and the Peculiar Power of the Comics (Scott Bukatman)....Pages 185-207 Our Progeny’s Monsters: Frankenstein Retold for Children in Picturebooks and Graphic Novels (Emily Alder)....Pages 209-225 Beyond the Filthy Form: Illustrating Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Beatriz González Moreno, Fernando González Moreno)....Pages 227-244 Front Matter ....Pages 245-245 The Frankenstein Meme: The Memetic Prominence of Mary Shelley’s Creature in Anglo-American Visual and Material Cultures (Shannon Rollins)....Pages 247-263 Frankenstein in Hyperspace: The Gothic Return of Digital Technologies to the Origins of Virtual Space in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Kirstin A. Mills)....Pages 265-281 Playing the Intercorporeal: Frankenstein’s Legacy for Games (Tanya Krzywinska)....Pages 283-300 What Was Man…? Reimagining Monstrosity from Humanism to Trashumanism (Fred Botting)....Pages 301-317 Back Matter ....Pages 319-344