Adapting Frankenstein

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

Introduction
The Frankenstein Complex: when the text is more than a text – Dennis R. Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry
Part I: Dramatic adaptations of Frankenstein on stage and radio
1 Frankenstein’s spectacular nineteenth-century stage history and legacy – Lissette Lopez Szwydky
2 A Frankensteinian model for adaptation studies, or ‘It lives!’: adaptive symbiosis and Peake’s Presumption, or the fate of Frankenstein – Glenn Jellenik
3 The gothic imagination in American sound recordings of Frankenstein – Laurence Raw
Part II: Cinematic and television adaptations of Frankenstein
4 A paranoid parable of adaptation: Forbidden Planet, Frankenstein, and the atomic age – Dennis R. Perry
5 The Curse of Frankenstein: Hammer film studios’ reinvention of horror cinema – Morgan C. O’Brien
6 The Frankenstein Complex on the small screen: Mary Shelley’s motivic novel as adjacent adaptation – Kyle Bishop
7 The new ethics of Frankenstein: responsibility and obedience in I, Robot and X-Men: First Class – Matt Lorenz
8 Hammer films and the perfection of the Frankenstein project – Maria K. Bachman and Paul C. Peterson
Part III: Literary adaptations of Frankenstein
9 ‘Plainly stitched together’: Frankenstein, neo-Victorian fiction, and the palimpsestuous literary past – Jamie Horrocks
10 Frankensteinian re-articulations in Scotland: monstrous marriage, maternity, and the politics of embodiment – Carol Margaret Davison
11 Young Frankensteins: graphic children’s texts and the twenty-first-century monster – Jessica Straley
12 In his image: the mad scientist remade in the young adult novel – Farran L. Norris Sands
13 The soul of the matter: Frankenstein meets H. P. Lovecraft’s ‘Herbert West—Reanimator’ – Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Part IV: Frankenstein in art, illustrations, and comics
14 Illustration, adaptation, and the development of Frankenstein’s visual lexicon – Kate Newell
15 ‘The X-Men meet Frankenstein! “Nuff Said”’: adapting Mary Shelley’s monster in superhero comic books – Joe Darowski
16 Expressionism, deformity, and abject texture in bande dessinée appropriations of Frankenstein – Véronique Bragard and Catherine Thewissen
Part V: New media adaptations of Frankenstein
17 Assembling the body/text: Frankenstein in new media – Tully Barnett and Ben Kooyman
18 Adaptations of ‘liveness’ in theatrical representations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – Kelly Jones

Frankenstein’s pulse: an afterword – Richard J. Hand
Index -- .