Adapting Frankenstein : The Monster's Eternal Lives in Popular Culture
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| Title: | Adapting Frankenstein : The Monster's Eternal Lives in Popular Culture |
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| Description: | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most popular novels in western literature. It has been adapted and re-assembled in countless forms, from Hammer Horror films to young-adult books and bandes dessinées. Beginning with the idea of the ‘Frankenstein Complex', this edited collection provides a series of creative readings that explore the elaborate intertextual networks that make up the novel's remarkable afterlife. It broadens the scope of research on Frankenstein while deepening our understanding of a text that, 200 years after its original publication, continues to intrigue and terrify us in new and unexpected ways. |
| Authors: | Dennis R. Cutchins, Dennis R. Perry |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Radio adaptations--History and criticism, Stage adaptations--History and criticism, Film adaptations--History and criticism, Television adaptations--History and criticism |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Horror & Supernatural, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most popular novels in western literature. It has been adapted and re-assembled in countless forms, from Hammer Horror films to young-adult books and bandes dessinées. Beginning with the idea of the ‘Frankenstein Complex', this edited collection provides a series of creative readings that explore the elaborate intertextual networks that make up the novel's remarkable afterlife. It broadens the scope of research on Frankenstein while deepening our understanding of a text that, 200 years after its original publication, continues to intrigue and terrify us in new and unexpected ways. |
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| ISBN: | 9781526108906 9781526108913 9781526108920 9781526108937 |
