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Introduction: Frankenstein: Presence, Process, Progress
Francesca Saggini
PA R T I
Labs, Bots, and Punks: Transmediating Technology and Science
1 Frankenstein and Science Fiction
Gino Roncaglia
2 Monstrous Algorithms and the Web of Fear: Risk, Crisis, and
Spectral Finance in Robert Harris’s The Fear Index
Lidia De Michelis
3 Frankensteinian Gods, Fembots, and the New Technological Frontier
in Alex Garland’s Ex_Machina
Eleanor Beal
PA R T I I
Becoming Monsters: The Limits of the Human
4 Staging Steampunk Aesthetics in Frankenstein Adaptations:
Mechanization, Disability, and the Body
Claire Nally
5 Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus in the Postcolony
Claudia Gualtieri
6 Four- Color Myth: Frankenstein in the Comics
Federico Meschini
PA RT I I I
The Evolution Games of Sight and Sound
7 “Uncouth and inarticulate sounds”: Musico- Literary Traces in
Frankenstein, and Frankenstein in Art Music
Enrico Reggiani
8 Enter Monsieur le Monstre: Cultural Border- Crossing and
Frankenstein in London and Paris in 1826
Diego Saglia
9 The Theme of the Doppelgänger in James Searle Dawley’s
Frankenstein
Daniele Pio Buenza
10 Perverting the Family: Re- Working Victor Frankenstein’s Gothic
Blood- Ties in Penny Dreadful
Ruth Heholt
PA R T I V
Monster Reflections
11 The Masked Performer and “the Mane Electric”: The Lives and
Multimedia Afterlives of Margaret Atwood’s Doctor Frankenstein
Janet Larson
12 Young Adult Frankenstein
Andrew McInnes
13 Revivifying Frankenstein’s Myth: Historical Encounters and
Dialogism in Back from the Dead:
The True Sequel to Frankenstein
Anna Enrichetta Soccio
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
FRANCESCA SAGGINI is a professor of English literature at the
Università della Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy. She is the author of
many books, including The Gothic Novel and the Stage: Romantic
Appropriations.
ANNA E. SOCCIO is a professor of English literature at the
Università G. d’Annunzio in Chieti, Italy. She is the author of
several books, including Come leggere “Hard Times”.
"Mary Shelley’s novel has had so many afterlives: the text lives
and is constantly reincarnated as an unparalleled text of revision,
rewriting, misreading, and overreading in science fiction, film,
young adult literature, feminism, biomedical ethics, drama, and
many other arenas. On the occasion of the anniversary of the 1818
edition of Frankenstein, editors Francesca Saggini and Anna
Enrichetta Soccio have gathered an admirably wide range of
approaches to that vast afterlife. The productive analyses here of
these transmedia incarnations demonstrate the power of Shelley’s
ur-text and offer delightful opportunities to enliven our teaching
and understanding of Frankenstein and his afterlives."
*New Jersey City University*
"One rarely encounters scholarly territory upon which Mary
Shelley's peripatetic creature has not already left its mark, but
this exceptional collection has managed to uncover new and exciting
ground in Frankenstein studies. In Transmedia Creatures:
Frankenstein's Afterlives, Saggini and Soccio present original
interdisciplinary essays by international scholars that explore
Shelley's novel as it is incarnated through the lens of multiple
media and differing modes of production. Erudite and entertaining,
this work gives us a fresh and often-startling view of that famous
'hideous progeny' as it is reborn in everything from
fanfiction and steampunk adaptations to musical compositions and
video games."
*Bucknell University*
"Chronicle of Higher Education new scholarly books weekly book
list," by Nina C. Ayoub
*Chronicle of Higher Education*
"The scholarship is sound. . .Transmedia Creatures offers some
exciting new avenues to explore in the wake of the bicentenary of
Shelley’s novel. Recommended."
*Choice*
"Saggini and Soccio’s [book] defies expectations and has a great
deal to say about the pedagogical uses to which Frankenstein’s
textual afterlives might be put. [...] many of the essays in this
volume, although they don’t define themselves that way, might be
characterized by what we now call presentist in that they trace how
cultural forebodings about the dangers of difference that preoccupy
the novel get re-mediated in contemporary culture to address those
same concerns. [...] All of these essays are never less than
illuminating, in their varied ways, on some understudied or
overlooked aspect of the novel’s afterlives, as should be obvious
from the book’s title but is never a given."
*European Romantic Review*
"In Transmedia Creatures, Saggini and Soccio collect a truly
international group of thirteen contributors who investigate the
ways how Frankenstein adaptations traverse media, genre, and
national boundaries....[T]his volume particularly appealing to
instructors looking for innovation in teaching the novel."
*Science Fiction Studies*
"Mary Shelley’s novel has had so many afterlives: the text lives
and is constantly reincarnated as an unparalleled text of revision,
rewriting, misreading, and overreading in science fiction, film,
young adult literature, feminism, biomedical ethics, drama, and
many other arenas. On the occasion of the anniversary of the 1818
edition of Frankenstein, editors Francesca Saggini and Anna
Enrichetta Soccio have gathered an admirably wide range of
approaches to that vast afterlife. The productive analyses here of
these transmedia incarnations demonstrate the power of Shelley’s
ur-text and offer delightful opportunities to enliven our teaching
and understanding of Frankenstein and his afterlives."
*New Jersey City University*
"One rarely encounters scholarly territory upon which Mary
Shelley's peripatetic creature has not already left its mark, but
this exceptional collection has managed to uncover new and exciting
ground in Frankenstein studies. In Transmedia Creatures:
Frankenstein's Afterlives, Saggini and Soccio present original
interdisciplinary essays by international scholars that explore
Shelley's novel as it is incarnated through the lens of multiple
media and differing modes of production. Erudite and entertaining,
this work gives us a fresh and often-startling view of that famous
'hideous progeny' as it is reborn in everything from
fanfiction and steampunk adaptations to musical compositions and
video games."
*Bucknell University*
"Chronicle of Higher Education new scholarly books weekly book
list," by Nina C. Ayoub
*Chronicle of Higher Education*
"The scholarship is sound. . .Transmedia Creatures offers some
exciting new avenues to explore in the wake of the bicentenary of
Shelley’s novel. Recommended."
*Choice*
"Saggini and Soccio’s [book] defies expectations and has a great
deal to say about the pedagogical uses to which Frankenstein’s
textual afterlives might be put. [...] many of the essays in this
volume, although they don’t define themselves that way, might be
characterized by what we now call presentist in that they trace how
cultural forebodings about the dangers of difference that preoccupy
the novel get re-mediated in contemporary culture to address those
same concerns. [...] All of these essays are never less than
illuminating, in their varied ways, on some understudied or
overlooked aspect of the novel’s afterlives, as should be obvious
from the book’s title but is never a given."
*European Romantic Review*
"In Transmedia Creatures, Saggini and Soccio collect a truly
international group of thirteen contributors who investigate the
ways how Frankenstein adaptations traverse media, genre, and
national boundaries....[T]his volume particularly appealing to
instructors looking for innovation in teaching the novel."
*Science Fiction Studies*
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