Black Frankenstein : : The Making of an American Metaphor / / Elizabeth Young.
For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
Series: | America and the Long 19th Century ;
22 |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 18 black and white illustrations |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 United States of Frankenstein
- 2 Black Monsters, Dead Metaphors
- 3 The Signifying Monster
- 4 Souls on Ice
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author