Adapting Frankenstein

doi:10.7765/9781526108920

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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Front Matter
pp i-iv
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Dedication
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Contents
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List of illustrations
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Notes on contributors
pp xii-xvi
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Introduction: The Frankenstein Complex: when the text is more than a text
pp 1-20
- By Dennis R. Cutchins, Dennis R. Perry
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Part I - Dramatic adaptations of <italic>Frankenstein</italic> on stage and radio
pp 21-22
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1 - <italic>Frankenstein</italic>’s spectacular nineteenth-century stage history and legacy
pp 23-44
- By Lissette Lopez Szwydky
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2 - A Frankensteinian model for adaptation studies, or ‘It lives!’: Adaptive symbiosis and Peake’s <italic>Presumption, or the fate of Frankenstein</italic>
pp 45-61
- By Glenn Jellenik
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3 - The Gothic imagination in American sound recordings of <italic>Frankenstein</italic>
pp 62-76
- By Laurence Raw
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Part II - Cinematic and television adaptations of <italic>Frankenstein</italic>
pp 77-78
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4 - A paranoid parable of adaptation: <italic>Forbidden Planet, Frankenstein</italic>, and the atomic age
pp 79-91
- By Dennis R. Perry
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5 - <italic>The Curse of Frankenstein</italic>: Hammer Film Studios’ reinvention of horror cinema
pp 92-110
- By Morgan C. O’Brien
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6 - The <italic>Frankenstein</italic> Complex on the small screen: Mary Shelley’s motivic novel as adjacent adaptation
pp 111-127
- By Kyle William Bishop
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7 - The new ethics of <italic>Frankenstein</italic>: Responsibility and obedience in <italic>I, Robot</italic> and <italic>X-Men: First Class</italic>
pp 128-142
- By Matt Lorenz
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8 - Hammer Films and the perfection of the <italic>Frankenstein</italic> project
pp 143-158
- By Maria K. Bachman, Paul C. Peterson
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Part III - Literary adaptations of <italic>Frankenstein</italic>
pp 159-160
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9 - ‘Plainly stitched together’: <italic>Frankenstein</italic>, neo-Victorian fiction, and the palimpsestuous literary past
pp 161-177
- By Jamie Horrocks
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10 - Frankensteinian re-articulations in Scotland: Monstrous marriage, maternity, and the politics of embodiment
pp 178-190
- By Carol Margaret Davison
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11 - Young <italic>Frankenstein</italic>s: Graphic children’s texts and the twenty-first-century monster
pp 191-209
- By Jessica Straley
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12 - In his image: The mad scientist remade in the young adult novel
pp 210-220
- By Farran L. Norris Sands
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13 - The soul of the matter: <italic>Frankenstein</italic> meets H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘Herbert West – Reanimator’
pp 221-236
- By Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
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Part IV - <italic>Frankenstein</italic> in art, illustrations, and comics
pp 237-238
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14 - Illustration, adaptation, and the development of <italic>Frankenstein</italic>’s visual lexicon
pp 239-258
- By Kate Newell
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15 - ‘The X-Men meet <italic>Frankenstein</italic>! “Nuff Said”’: Adapting Mary Shelley’s monster in superhero comic books
pp 259-269
- By Joe Darowski
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16 - Expressionism, deformity, and abject texture in bande dessinée appropriations of <italic>Frankenstein</italic>
pp 270-292
- By Véronique Bragard, Catherine Thewissen
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Part V - New media adaptations of <italic>Frankenstein</italic>
pp 293-294
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17 - Assembling the body/text: <italic>Frankenstein</italic> in new media
pp 295-315
- By Tully Barnett, Ben Kooyman
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18 - Adaptations of ‘liveness’ in theatrical representations of Mary Shelley’s <italic>Frankenstein</italic>
pp 316-334
- By Kelly Jones
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<italic>Frankenstein</italic>’s pulse: An afterword
pp 335-339
- By Richard J. Hand
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