Monstrous progeny : a history of the Frankenstein narratives / Lester D. Friedman and Allison B. Kav...
Monstrous progeny : a history of the Frankenstein narratives / Lester D. Friedman and Allison B. Kav...
Monstrous progeny : a history of the Frankenstein narratives / Lester D. Friedman and Allison B. Kavey.
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New Brusnwick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
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G 2016/3559
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English
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xi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: Singing the Body Electric -- In a Country of Eternal Light: Frankenstein's Intellectual History -- The Instruments of Life: Frankenstein's Medical History -- A More Horrid Contrast: From the Page to the Stage -- It's Still Alive: The Universal and Hammer Movie Cycles -- The House of Fr...
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New Brusnwick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
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New Jersey
Date Published
[2016]
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"Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale so adaptable and so resilient that, nearly 200 years later, it remains vitally relevant in a culture radically different from the one that spawned its birth?...
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Monstrous progeny : a history of the Frankenstein narratives / Lester D. Friedman and Allison B. Kavey.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index.
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©2016
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G 2016/3559
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74VKV62avoyl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV62avoyl
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9780813564241 (hardback)
0813564247 (hardback)
9780813564234 (pbk.)
0813564239 (pbk.)
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823.7
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991024019078402626
