Hideous Progenies : : Dramatizations of "Frankenstein" from the Nineteenth Century to the Present / / 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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 31 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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