eBook - ePub
The Afterlives of Frankenstein
Popular and Artistic Adaptations and Reimaginings
- 248 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
The Afterlives of Frankenstein
Popular and Artistic Adaptations and Reimaginings
About this book
An exploration of the treatment of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in popular art and culture, this book examines adaptations in film, comics, theatre, art, video-games and more, to illuminate how the novel's myth has evolved in the two centuries since its publication. Divided into four sections, The Afterlives of Frankenstein considers the cultural dialogues Mary Shelley's novel has engaged with in specific historical moments; the extraordinary examples of how Frankenstein has suffused our cultural consciousness; and how the Frankenstein myth has become something to play with, a locus for reinvention and imaginative interpretation. In the final part, artists respond to the Frankenstein legacy today, reintroducing it into cultural circulation in ways that speak creatively to current anxieties and concerns.
Bringing together popular interventions that riff off Shelley's major themes, chapters survey such works as Frankenstein in Baghdad, Bob Dylan's recent "My Own Version of You", the graphic novel series Destroyer with its Black cast of characters, Jane Louden's The Mummy!, the first Japanese translation of Frankenstein, "The New Creator", the iconic Frankenstein mask and Kenneth Brannagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein film. A deep-dive into the crevasses of Frankenstein adaptation and lore, this volume offers compelling new directions for scholarship surrounding the novel through dynamic critical and creative responses to Shelley's original.
Bringing together popular interventions that riff off Shelley's major themes, chapters survey such works as Frankenstein in Baghdad, Bob Dylan's recent "My Own Version of You", the graphic novel series Destroyer with its Black cast of characters, Jane Louden's The Mummy!, the first Japanese translation of Frankenstein, "The New Creator", the iconic Frankenstein mask and Kenneth Brannagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein film. A deep-dive into the crevasses of Frankenstein adaptation and lore, this volume offers compelling new directions for scholarship surrounding the novel through dynamic critical and creative responses to Shelley's original.
Frequently asked questions
Yes, you can cancel anytime from the Subscription tab in your account settings on the Perlego website. Your subscription will stay active until the end of your current billing period. Learn how to cancel your subscription.
No, books cannot be downloaded as external files, such as PDFs, for use outside of Perlego. However, you can download books within the Perlego app for offline reading on mobile or tablet. Learn more here.
Perlego offers two plans: Essential and Complete
- Essential is ideal for learners and professionals who enjoy exploring a wide range of subjects. Access the Essential Library with 800,000+ trusted titles and best-sellers across business, personal growth, and the humanities. Includes unlimited reading time and Standard Read Aloud voice.
- Complete: Perfect for advanced learners and researchers needing full, unrestricted access. Unlock 1.4M+ books across hundreds of subjects, including academic and specialized titles. The Complete Plan also includes advanced features like Premium Read Aloud and Research Assistant.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes! You can use the Perlego app on both iOS or Android devices to read anytime, anywhere — even offline. Perfect for commutes or when you’re on the go.
Please note we cannot support devices running on iOS 13 and Android 7 or earlier. Learn more about using the app.
Please note we cannot support devices running on iOS 13 and Android 7 or earlier. Learn more about using the app.
Yes, you can access The Afterlives of Frankenstein by Robert I. Lublin, Elizabeth A. Fay, Robert I. Lublin,Elizabeth A. Fay in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Film & Video. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
Information
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Cultural Reinventions
- 1 “Only from the future”: Frankenstein, The Mummy!, and the Ontology of Revolution
- 2 Frankens-Time: Frankenstein and the Temporality of Artificial Life
- 3 Meiji Japan Responds to Frankenstein: The 1889–1890 translation “The New Creator” and the Illustrations
- 4 Frankenstein Goes Global: Returning the Necropolitical Gaze with Frankenstein in Baghdad
- Part Two Frankensteinia
- 5 Frankenstein in the Popular Imagination
- 6 Frankenstein Masks: Perpetuating the Monster Assemblage
- 7 “Machines Within the Machine”: Definitions of Humanity in Victor LaValle’s and Dietrich Smith’s Destroyer (2017)
- Part Three Playing Frankenstein
- 8 Mary Enters: Staging Shelley in Contemporary Frankenstein Biodramas
- 9 The Frankenstein Myth in Twenty-First-Century Film
- 10 The Water and the Corpse: Exploring Nature, Shelley’s Echoes, and Twenty-First Century Cultural Anxieties in The Frankenstein Chronicles
- 11 The Aesthetics of Digital Naturecultures in La Belle Games’s The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature (2019)
- Part Four Artists Talk Back
- 12 A Monstrous Circus on Frankenstein: Mediating Shelley’s Novel through John Cage’s Multimedia Strategies
- 13 Frankenstein in Three Chords
- 14 From Frankenstein to Writing Sci-Fi to Collage
- Coda: Frankenstein Continued
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright