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Global reanimations of Frankenstein

Contributors

Carol Margaret Davison
Editor

Abstract

Consisting of sixteen original essays by experts in the field, including leading and lesser-known international scholars, Global Frankenstein considers the tremendous adaptability and rich afterlives of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, Frankenstein, at its bicentenary, in such fields and disciplines as digital technology, film, theatre, dance, medicine, book illustration, science fiction, comic books, science, and performance art. This ground-breaking, celebratory volume, edited by two established Gothic Studies scholars, reassesses Frankenstein’s global impact for the twenty-first century across a myriad of cultures and nations, from Japan, Mexico, and Turkey, to Britain, Iraq, Europe, and North America. Offering compelling critical dissections of reincarnations of Frankenstein, a generically hybrid novel described by its early reviewers as a “bold,” “bizarre,” and “impious” production by a writer “with no common powers of mind”, this collection interrogates its sustained relevance over two centuries during which it has engaged with such issues as mortality, global capitalism, gender, race, embodiment, neoliberalism, disability, technology, and the role of science.

Citation

(2018). Global reanimations of Frankenstein. In C. M. Davison, & M. Mulvey-Roberts (Eds.), Global Frankenstein (1-17). New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date 2018
Deposit Date Jun 21, 2021
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 1-17
Book Title Global Frankenstein
ISBN 9783319781426
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7482537
Publisher URL https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319781419
Additional Information Review
“I must declare that the essays in this collection comprise a thorough, thought-provoking, and occasionally brilliant body of scholarship. … Global Frankenstein provides a varied and fascinating array of critical approaches to Frankenstein itself as well as a truly remarkable range of related works. … I recommend following Davison and Mulvey-Roberts’ excellent collection with further scholarship on the international reach of Shelley’s hideous progeny.” (Sarah Canfield, SFRA Review, Vol. 51 (1), 2021)

--This text refers to the paperback edition.
Review
“Mary Shelley wrote of Frankenstein, ‘I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper,’ and since 1818 the scientist and his creature have certainly done that: the story has been condemned and celebrated, interpreted and re-interpreted, acted and filmed and illustrated countless times―to the point where it has left the world of literature altogether to become a modern creation myth. A global myth. This welcome collection of articles―about Frankenstein and science and technology, medicine and monstrosity, the spectacular and the visual...and the future―by a new generation of scholars, brings the story up to date by viewing it from the perspectives, and through the concerns, of today. It’s a very suitable, and suitably global, 200th birthday celebration.” (Professor Sir Christopher Frayling, author of Frankenstein : The First Two Hundred Years (2017) and Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection: from Count Dracula to Vampirella (2016)) --This text refers to the paperback edition.