Global Frankenstein

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.

“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 toFrankenstein 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)

• 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 the ‘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 TheatreProduction 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.