"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)
Introduction: Global Reanimations of Frankenstein
Carol Margaret Davison and Marie Mulvey-Roberts
FRANKENSTEIN – SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE NATURE OF LIFE
1. The Gothic Image and the Quandaries of Science in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Jerrold E. Hogle
2. Paracelsus and the ‘[p[r]etty experimentalism’: the Glass Prison of Science and Secrecy in Frankenstein
Victor Sage
3. Monstrous Dissections and Surgery as Performance: Gender, Race and the Bride of Frankenstein
Marie Mulvey-Roberts
FRANKENSTEIN AND DISABLED, INDECOROUS, MORTAL BODIES
4. ‘The human senses are insurmountable barriers’: Deformity, Sympathy and Monster Love in Three Variations on Frankenstein
Bruce Wyse
5. ‘We sometimes paused to laugh outright’: Frankenstein and the Struggle for Decorum
Carolyn D. Williams
6. Monstrous, Mortal Embodiment and Last Dances: Frankenstein and the Ballet Carol Margaret Davison
SPECTACULAR FRANKENSTEINS ON SCREEN AND STAGE
7. ‘Now I am a Man!’: Performing Sexual Violence in the National Theatre Production of Frankenstein
Courtney A. Hoffman
8. The Cadaver’s Pulse: Cinema and the Modern Prometheus
Scott MacKenzie
9. Promethean Myths of the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Frankenstein Film Adaptations and the Rise of the Viral Zombie
Xavier Aldana Reyes
FRANKENSTEINIAN ILLUSTRATIONS AND LITERARY ADAPTATIONS
10. Frankenstein and the Peculiar Power of the Comics
Scott Bukatman
11. Our Progeny’s Monsters: Frankenstein Retold for Children in Picturebooks and Graphic Novels
Emily Alder
12. Beyond the Filthy Form:Illustrating Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Beatriz González Moreno and Fernando González Moreno
FUTURISTIC FRANKENSTEINS/FRANKENSTEINIAN FUTURES
13. The Frankenstein Meme: The Memetic Prominence of Mary Shelley’s Creature in Anglo-American Visual and Material Cultures
Shannon Rollins
14. Frankenstein in Hyperspace: The Gothic Return of Digital Technologies to the Origins of Virtual Space in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Kirstin Mills
15. Playing the Intercorporeal: Frankenstein’s Legacy for Games
Tanya Krzywinska
16. ‘What was Man…?’: Reimagining Monstrosity from Humanism to Trashumanism
Fred Botting
17. Afterword—Meditation on the Monster
David Punter
Carol Margaret Davison is Professor of English Literature at the University of Windsor, Canada and the author of History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature, 1764-1824 (2009) and Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). She recently edited The Gothic and Death (2017) and The Edinburgh Companion to the Scottish Gothic (2017) with Monica Germanà.
Marie Mulvey-Roberts is Professor of English Literature at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK and author of Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal (2016), winner of the Alan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. She has authored, edited, and co-edited over 30 books. Recently she made a film on Frankenstein for a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on the literary South West.