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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. 

Global Frankenstein

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

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

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

David Punter