Frankenstein 200 : the Birth, Life, and Resurrection of Mary Shelley's Monster /

Two centuries ago, a teenage genius created a monster that still walks among us. In 1818, Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, and in doing so set forth into the world a scientist and his monster. The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, famed women's rights advocate, and William Godwin, radical po...

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Main Author: Baumann, Rebecca (Author)
Other Authors: Mitchell, Jody (Photographer) (Photographer)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword. Empire of the imagination women and speculative fiction / by Jonathan Kearns
  • Preface. Stitched and bound by love and fear books, monsters, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / by Rebecca Baumann
  • Mary Shelley and the birth of Frankenstein
  • Mary and Percy
  • Mary beyond Frankenstein
  • Mary's father, William Godwin
  • Mary's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Mad science
  • The Gothic
  • The monster's books
  • Victor Frankenstein's books
  • Frankenstein in popular culture
  • The undead
  • Artificial life
  • Adapting Frankenstein
  • Illustrating Frankenstein
  • Outsiders and others
  • More monsters
  • Weird women.