Hideous Progenies : : Dramatizations of "Frankenstein" from the Nineteenth Century to the Present / / Steven Earl Forry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Forry, Steven Earl,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 31 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Melodrama and Burlesque: 1823–1832 --; 2. Frankenstein Amid the Populace: Victorian Renderings of Shelley's Novel, 1832-1900 --; 3. Reviving Frankenstein in the Twentieth Century: Drama and Cinema, 1900–1930 --; 4. Afterword and List of Plays, 1821-1986 --; Textual Note --; Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (1823) --; Another Piece of Presumption (1823) --; Frank-in-Steam; or, The Modern Promise to Pay (1824) --; Henry M. Milner Frankenstein; or, The Man and the Monster (1826) --; The Monster and Magician; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (1826) --; Frankenstein; or, The Model Man (1849) --; Frankenstein (1930) --; Frankenstein; or, The Vampire’s Victim (1887) --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512802030; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512802030
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Steven Earl Forry.

In Hideous Progenies, Steven Earl Forry offers a historical overview of the legend of Frankenstein's transformation over time--beginning with Shelley's original and the earliest popular dramatizations of it and continuing on through the advent of cinema.