Adapting Frankenstein

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.

subjects: Shelley, mary wollstonecraft, 1797-1851,  Film adaptations,  Stage adaptations,  Adaptations,  History and criticism,  Television adaptations,  Radio adaptations,  Frankenstein films,  Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft)