Saggini / Soccio Transmedia Creatures

Frankenstein’s Afterlives
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-68448-064-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saggini, Francesca

Soccio, Anna Enrichetta

Weitere Mitwirkende

Michelis, Lidia De

Beal, Eleanor

Roncaglia, Gino

Nally, Claire

Gualtieri, Claudia

Meschini, Federico

Reggiani, Enrico

Saglia, Diego

Buenza, Daniele Pio

Heholt, Ruth

McInnes, Andrew

Larson, Janet

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Frankenstein and Science Fiction 2. Monstrous Algorithms and the Web of Fear: Risk, Crisis, and Spectral Finance in Robert Harris’s The Fear Index 3. Frankensteinian Gods, Fembots, and the New Technological Frontier in Alex Garland’s Ex_Machina Part II. Becoming Monsters: The Limits of the Human 4. Staging Steampunk Aesthetics in Frankenstein Adaptations: Mechanization, Disability, and the Body 5. Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus in the Postcolony 6. Four-Color Myth: Frankenstein in the Comics Part III. The Evolution Games of Sight and Sound 7. “Uncouth and inarticulate sounds”: Musico-Literary Traces in Frankenstein, and Frankenstein in Art Music 8. Enter Monsieur le Monstre: Cultural Border-Crossing and Frankenstein in London and Paris in 1826 9. The Theme of the Doppelgänger in James Searle Dawley’s Frankenstein 10. Perverting the Family: Re-Working Victor Frankenstein’s Gothic Blood-Ties in Penny Dreadful Part IV. Monster Reflections 11. The Masked Performer and “the Mane Electric”: The Lives and Multimedia Afterlives of Margaret Atwood’s Doctor Frankenstein 12. Young Adult Frankenstein Dedication Contents Abbreviations Introduction: Frankenstein: Presence, Process, Progress Part I. Labs, Bots, and Punks: Transmediating Technology and Science 13. Revivifying Frankenstein’s Myth: Historical Encounters and Dialogism in Back from the Dead: The True Sequel to Frankenstein Acknowledgments Bibliography Index About the Contributors Title Page Copyright

Über Autor(innen)

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”.