Adapting Frankenstein
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781526108913
Subjects: Shelley, mary wollstonecraft, 1797-1851; Film adaptations; Stage adaptations
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 dessine es. 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.