Global Frankenstein (Studies in Global Science Fiction)

Global Frankenstein (Studies in Global Science Fiction)- Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783319781419,3319781413,9783319781426, 3319781421

Product details:

• ISBN 10: 3319781421
• ISBN 13:9783319781426
• Author:Carol Margaret Davison

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Global Reanimations of Frankenstein

Part I. Frankenstein: Science, Technology, and the Nature of Life

2. The Gothic Image and the Quandaries of Science in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

3. Paracelsus and ‘P[r]etty Experimentalism’: The Glass Prison of Science and Secrecy in Frankenstein

4. Monstrous Dissections and Surgery as Performance: Gender, Race and the Bride of Frankenstein

Part II. Frankenstein and Disabled, Indecorous, Mortal Bodies

5. ‘The Human Senses Are Insurmountable Barriers’: Deformity, Sympathy, and Monster Love in Three Variations on Frankenstein

6. ‘We Sometimes Paused to Laugh Outright’: Frankenstein and the Struggle for Decorum

7. Monstrous, Mortal Embodiment and Last Dances: Frankenstein and the Ballet

Part III. Spectacular Frankensteins on Screen and Stage

8. ‘Now I Am a Man!’: Performing Sexual Violence in the National Theatre Production of Frankenstein

9. The Cadaver’s Pulse: Cinema and the Modern Prometheus

10. Promethean Myths of the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Frankenstein Film Adaptations and the Rise of the Viral Zombie

Part IV. Frankensteinian Illustrations and Literary Adaptations

11. Frankenstein and the Peculiar Power of the Comics

12. Our Progeny’s Monsters: Frankenstein Retold for Children in Picturebooks and Graphic Novels

13. Beyond the Filthy Form: Illustrating Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Part V. Futuristic Frankensteins/Frankensteinian Futures

14. The Frankenstein Meme: The Memetic Prominence of Mary Shelley’s Creature in Anglo-American Visual and Material Cultures

15. Frankenstein in Hyperspace: The Gothic Return of Digital Technologies to the Origins of Virtual Space in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

16. Playing the Intercorporeal: Frankenstein’s Legacy for Games

17. What Was Man…? Reimagining Monstrosity from Humanism to Trashumanism

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