Monstrous Progeny : : A History of the Frankenstein Narratives / / Allison B. Kavey, Lester D. Friedman.
Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale so adaptable and so resilient that, nearly 200 years later, it remains vitally relevant in a culture ra...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 37 photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Singing The Body Electric
- 1. In A Country Of Eternal Light: Frankenstein'S Intellectual History
- 2. The Instruments Of Life: Frankenstein'S Medical History
- 3. A More Horrid Contrast: From The Page To The Stage
- 4. It'S Still Alive: The Universal And Hammer Movie Cycles
- 5. Mary Shelley'S Stepchildren: Transitions, Translations, And Transformations
- 6. Fifty Ways To Leave Your Monster
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About The Authors