Studies in Global Science Fiction
Global Frankenstein
Editors: Davison, Carol Margaret, Mulvey-Roberts, Marie (Eds.)
Explores the versatility and interdisciplinary applications of Frankenstein in areas such as science, alchemy, hypertext, dance, art, post-humanism, computer games, and Victorian steampunk
Provides a global perspective with international authors and multi-national examples
Engages with the afterlife of Frankenstein and gives fresh prominence in the bicentennial year of its publication
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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.
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.
"Mary Shelley wrote of Frankenstein, 'I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper,' and since 1818 the scientist and his creature have certainly done that: the story has been condemned and celebrated, interpreted and re-interpreted, acted and filmed and illustrated countless times—to the point where it has left the world of literature altogether to become a modern creation myth. A global myth. This welcome collection of articles—about Frankenstein and science and technology, medicine and monstrosity, the spectacular and the visual...and the future—by a new generation of scholars, brings the story up to date by viewing it from the perspectives, and through the concerns, of today. It's a very suitable, and suitably global, 200th birthday celebration." (Professor Sir Christopher Frayling, author of Frankenstein : The First Two Hundred Years (2017) and Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection: from Count Dracula to Vampirella (2016))
Introduction: Global Reanimations of Frankenstein
Davison, Carol Margaret (et al.)
The Gothic Image and the Quandaries of Science in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Hogle, Jerrold E.
Paracelsus and 'P[r]etty Experimentalism': The Glass Prison of Science and Secrecy in Frankenstein
Sage, Victor
Monstrous Dissections and Surgery as Performance: Gender, Race and the Bride of Frankenstein
Mulvey-Roberts, Marie
'The Human Senses Are Insurmountable Barriers': Deformity, Sympathy, and Monster Love in Three Variations on Frankenstein
Wyse, Bruce
'We Sometimes Paused to Laugh Outright': Frankenstein and the Struggle for Decorum
Williams, Carolyn D.
Monstrous, Mortal Embodiment and Last Dances: Frankenstein and the Ballet
Davison, Carol Margaret
'Now I Am a Man!': Performing Sexual Violence in the National Theatre Production of Frankenstein
Hoffman, Courtney A.
The Cadaver's Pulse: Cinema and the Modern Prometheus
MacKenzie, Scott
Promethean Myths of the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Frankenstein Film Adaptations and the Rise of the Viral Zombie
Aldana Reyes, Xavier
Frankenstein and the Peculiar Power of the Comics
Bukatman, Scott
Our Progeny's Monsters: Frankenstein Retold for Children in Picturebooks and Graphic Novels
Alder, Emily
Beyond the Filthy Form: Illustrating Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Moreno, Beatriz González (et al.)
The Frankenstein Meme: The Memetic Prominence of Mary Shelley's Creature in Anglo-American Visual and Material Cultures
Rollins, Shannon
Frankenstein in Hyperspace: The Gothic Return of Digital Technologies to the Origins of Virtual Space in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Mills, Kirstin A.
Playing the Intercorporeal: Frankenstein's Legacy for Games
Krzywinska, Tanya
What Was Man…? Reimagining Monstrosity from Humanism to Trashumanism
Botting, Fred
Carol Margaret Davison
Marie Mulvey-Roberts
The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
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