Adapting Frankenstein

Dennis R. Cutchins is Associate Professor of American Literature at Brigham Young UniversityDennis R. Perry is Associate Professor of American Literature at Brigham Young University

• IntroductionThe Frankenstein Complex: when the text is more than a text – Dennis R. Cutchins and Dennis R. PerryPart I: Dramatic adaptations of Frankenstein on stage and radio1 Frankenstein’s spectacular nineteenth-century stage history and legacy – Lissette Lopez Szwydky2 A Frankensteinian model for adaptation studies, or ‘It lives!’: adaptive symbiosis and Peake’s Presumption, or the fate of Frankenstein – Glenn Jellenik3 The gothic imagination in American sound recordings of Frankenstein – Laurence RawPart II: Cinematic and television adaptations of Frankenstein4 A paranoid parable of adaptation: Forbidden Planet, Frankenstein, and the atomic age – Dennis R. Perry5 The Curse of Frankenstein: Hammer film studios’ reinvention of horror cinema – Morgan C. O’Brien6 The Frankenstein Complex on the small screen: Mary Shelley’s motivic novel as adjacent adaptation – Kyle Bishop7 The new ethics of Frankenstein: responsibility and obedience in I, Robot and X-Men: First Class – Matt Lorenz8 Hammer films and the perfection of the Frankenstein project – Maria K. Bachman and Paul C. Peterson Part III: Literary adaptations of Frankenstein9 ‘Plainly stitched together’: Frankenstein, neo-Victorian fiction, and the palimpsestuous literary past – Jamie Horrocks10 Frankensteinian re-articulations in Scotland: monstrous marriage, maternity, and the politics of embodiment – Carol Margaret Davison11 Young Frankensteins: graphic children’s texts and the twenty-first-century monster – Jessica Straley12 In his image: the mad scientist remade in the young adult novel – Farran L. Norris Sands13 The soul of the matter: Frankenstein meets H. P. Lovecraft’s ‘Herbert West—Reanimator’ – Jeffrey Andrew WeinstockPart IV: Frankenstein in art, illustrations, and comics14 Illustration, adaptation, and the development of Frankenstein’s visual lexicon – Kate Newell15 ‘The X-Men meet Frankenstein! “Nuff Said”’: adapting Mary Shelley’s monster in superhero comic books – Joe Darowski16 Expressionism, deformity, and abject texture in bande dessinée appropriations of Frankenstein – Véronique Bragard and Catherine ThewissenPart V: New media adaptations of Frankenstein17 Assembling the body/text: Frankenstein in new media – Tully Barnett and Ben Kooyman18 Adaptations of ‘liveness’ in theatrical representations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – Kelly JonesFrankenstein’s pulse: an afterword – Richard J. HandIndex

'...covers an impressively wide range of adaptations of Shelley’s classic and that can only be warmly recommended to anyone interested in Frankenstein, or in adaptation studies in general for that matter.'Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen