Adapting Frankenstein: The monster's eternal lives in popular culture [1 ed.] 1526108917, 9781526108913

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most popular novels in western literature. It has been adapted and re-assemble

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Adapting Frankenstein: The monster's eternal lives in popular culture [1 ed.]
1526108917, 9781526108913

This edited collection explores the afterlife of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in theatre and film, radio, literature

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What is it about ancient monsters that popular culture still finds so enthralling? Why do the monsters of antiquity cont

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From David Lean’s big screen Great Expectations to Alejandro Amenábar’s reinvention of The Turn of the Screw as The Othe

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In Paper Monsters, Samuel Fallon charts the striking rise in the 1590's of a new species of textual being: the seri

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