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The Endurance of Frankenstein

George Levine,U. C. Knoepflmacher
The Endurance of Frankenstein Book PDF

Author : George Levine,U. C. Knoepflmacher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1982-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520046404

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The Endurance of Frankenstein by George Levine,U. C. Knoepflmacher Pdf

MARY SHELLEY's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus grew out of a parlor game and a nightmare vision. The story of the book's origin is a famous one, first told in the introduction Mary Shelley wrote for the 1831 edition of the novel. The two Shelleys, Byron, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont, and John William Polidori (Byron's physician) spent a "wet, ungenial summer in the Swiss Alps." Byron suggested that "each write a ghost story." If one is to trust Mary Shelley's account (and James Rieger has shown the untrustworthiness of its chronology and particulars), only she and "poor Polidori" took the contest seriously. The two "illustrious poets," according to her, "annoyed by the platitude of prose, speedily relinquished their uncongenial task." Polidori, too, is made to seem careless, unable to handle his story of a "skull-headed lady." Though Mary Shelley is just as deprecating when she speaks of her own "tiresome unlucky ghost story," she also suggests that its sources went deeper. Her truant muse became active as soon as she fastened on the "idea" of "making only a transcript of the grim terrors of my waking dream": "'I have found it! What terrified me will terrify others."' The twelve essays in this collection attest to the endurance of Mary Shelley's "waking dream." Appropriately, though less romantically, this book also grew out of a playful conversation at a party. When several of the contributors to this book discovered that they were all closet aficionados of Mary Shelley's novel, they decided that a book might be written in which each contributor-contestant might try to account for the persistent hold that Frankenstein continues to exercise on the popular imagination. Within a few months, two films--Warhol's Frankenstein and Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein--and the Hall-Landau and Isherwood-Bachardy television versions of the novel appeared to remind us of our blunted purpose. These manifestations were an auspicious sign and resulted in the book Endurance of Frankenstein.

Speculations on Speculation

James E. Gunn,Matthew Candelaria
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Author : James E. Gunn,Matthew Candelaria
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 081084902X

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Speculations on Speculation by James E. Gunn,Matthew Candelaria Pdf

Science fiction is a field of literature that has great interest and great controversy among its writers and critics. This book examines the roots, history, development, current status, and future directions of the field through articles contributed by well-respected science fiction writers, teachers, and critics. This book can be used as a textbook for courses in theory as well as courses in science fiction literature and science fiction writing.

Shelley's Frankenstein

Graham Allen
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Author : Graham Allen
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441120885

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Shelley's Frankenstein by Graham Allen Pdf

Mary Shelley's classic gothic novel, Frankenstein, is one of the most widely studied novels in English Literature. Due to its key position in the canon and its wide cultural influence, the novel has been the subject of many interpretations, which require some guidance to navigate. This book offers an authoritative, up-to-date guide for students, introducing its context, language, themes, criticism and afterlife, leading them to a more sophisticated understanding of the text. Graham Allen places Frankenstein in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure, providing exemplary close readings, and presenting an up-to-date account of its critical reception. It also includes an introduction to its substantial history as an adapted text on stage and screen and its wider influence in film and popular culture. It includes points for discussion, suggestions for further study and an annotated guide to relevant reading.

York Notes AS/A2: Frankenstein Kindle edition

Glennis Byron,Mary J Shelley
York Notes AS A2 Frankenstein Kindle edition Book PDF

Author : Glennis Byron,Mary J Shelley
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781447966005

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York Notes AS/A2: Frankenstein Kindle edition by Glennis Byron,Mary J Shelley Pdf

THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS York Notes for AS & A2 are brand new and have been specifically designed to help you get the very best grade you can. They are comprehensive, easy to use, packed with valuable features and written by experienced examiners and teachers to give you an expert understanding of the text, critical approaches and the all-important exam. This edition covers Frankenstein and includes: An enhanced exam skills section which includes essay plans, expert guidance on understanding questions and sample answers. You'll know exactly what you need to do and say to get t.

The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer

Mary Poovey
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Author : Mary Poovey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226675282

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The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer by Mary Poovey Pdf

"A brilliant, original, and powerful book. . . . This is the most skillful integration of feminism and Marxist literary criticism that I know of." So writes critic Stephen Greenblatt about The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer, Mary Poovey's study of the struggle of three prominent writers to accommodate the artist's genius to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century ideal of the modest, self-effacing "proper lady." Interpreting novels, letters, journals, and political tracts in the context of cultural strictures, Poovey makes an important contribution to English social and literary history and to feminist theory. "The proper lady was a handy concept for a developing bourgeois patriarchy, since it deprived women of worldly power, relegating them to a sanctified domestic sphere that, in complex ways, nourished and sustained the harsh 'real' world of men. With care and subtle intelligence, Poovey examines this 'guardian and nemesis of the female self' through the ways it is implicated in the style and strategies of three very different writers."—Rachel M. Brownstein, The Nation "The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer is a model of . . . creative discovery, providing a well-researched, illuminating history of women writers at the turn of the nineteenth century. [Poovey] creates sociologically and psychologically persuasive accounts of the writers: Wollstonecraft, who could never fully transcend the ideology of propriety she attacked; Shelley, who gradually assumed a mask of feminine propriety in her social and literary styles; and Austen, who was neither as critical of propriety as Wollstonecraft nor as accepting as Shelley ultimately became."—Deborah Kaplan, Novel

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Harold Bloom
Mary Shelley s Frankenstein Book PDF

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781438139999

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Harold Bloom Pdf

Provides a collection of critical essays bringing various interpretations to the novel about a monster created by a scientist.

Transmedia Creatures

Francesca Saggini,Anna Enrichetta Soccio
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Author : Francesca Saggini,Anna Enrichetta Soccio
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781684480623

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Transmedia Creatures by Francesca Saggini,Anna Enrichetta Soccio Pdf

On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures presents studies of Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television studies, English and digital humanities. These innovative contributions investigate the afterlives of a novel taught in a disparate array of courses - Frankenstein disturbs and transcends boundaries, be they political, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and not least of media, ensuring its vibrant presence in contemporary popular culture. Transmedia Creatures highlights how cultural content is redistributed through multiple media, forms and modes of production (including user-generated ones from “below”) that often appear synchronously and dismantle and renew established readings of the text, while at the same time incorporating and revitalizing aspects that have always been central to it. The authors engage with concepts, value systems and aesthetic-moral categories—among them the family, horror, monstrosity, diversity, education, risk, technology, the body—from a variety of contemporary approaches and highly original perspectives, which yields new connections. Ultimately, Frankenstein, as evidenced by this collection, is paradoxically enriched by the heteroglossia of preconceptions, misreadings, and overreadings that attend it, and that reveal the complex interweaving of perceptions and responses it generates. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

The Annotated Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780674055520

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The Annotated Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Pdf

A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator, in an annotated edition that offers insights into Shelley's literary and social worlds.

English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830

Gary Kelly
English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789 1830 Book PDF

Author : Gary Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134960842

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English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 by Gary Kelly Pdf

English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 is the first comprehensive historical survey of fiction from that period for many decades. It combines a clear awareness of the period's social history with recent developments in literary criticism, theory and history, and explains the astounding variety of forms in Romantic fiction in terms of the various cultural, political, social, regional and gender conflicts of the time. It provides a broad-ranging survey from the major authors and works through to the sub-genres of the period. Jan Austin and Sir Alter Scott are discussed alongside the Gothic Romance, political and feminist fiction, social satire and regional, rural and historical novels. It also provides a comparison of the methods of distribution and marketing and the availability of books then and now; examines cheap popular fiction and children's fiction, and considers the recent debate about the place of prose fiction in a Romantic literature hitherto dominated by poetry.

The Romantic Reformation

Robert M. Ryan
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Author : Robert M. Ryan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521604540

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The Romantic Reformation by Robert M. Ryan Pdf

First book to examine the Romantic poets' engagement with the religious debates that dominated the period.

Annoying the Victorians

James Kincaid
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Author : James Kincaid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317971177

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Annoying the Victorians by James Kincaid Pdf

What happens when bad criticism happens to good people? Annoying the Victorians sets the tradition of critical discourse and literary criticism on its ear, as well as a few other areas. James Kincaid brings his witty, erudite and thoroughly cynical self to the Victorians, and they will never read (or be read) quite the same.

Mary Shelley

Angela Wright
Mary Shelley Book PDF

Author : Angela Wright
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783168477

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Mary Shelley by Angela Wright Pdf

Mary Shelley reappraises the significance of Frankenstein alongside other works by Shelley which could be considered to revise the significance and fluctuating meanings of ‘Gothic’ during the Romantic period. It offers scholarly, fresh readings of the 1818 and 1831 editions of Frankenstein, as well as chapters upon the fiction that Shelley composed in between both editions, and during the same decade as its second edition. In its broader examination of Mary Shelley’s work, this study is the first of its kind within the field of Gothic studies. Alongside sustained explorations of Frankenstein, Matilda, Valperga and The Last Man, the volume Mary Shelley reappraises some of the shorter essays and tales that the author composed for contemporary magazines. Angela Wright argues that the time is now right for a re-examination of the extent to which Shelley participated in and redirected the Gothic tradition.

Faces of Anonymity

R. Griffin
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Author : R. Griffin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137111098

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Faces of Anonymity by R. Griffin Pdf

This pathbreaking collection of original essays surveys an important but neglected topic: anonymous publication in England for the Elizabethan age to the present. An impressive group of scholars analyzes a wide range of literary phenomena including: Shakespeare in 17th century commonplace books; the phrase 'By a Lady'; the implied author of an eighteenth century queer fiction; Bentley and the battle of books; essays by Equiano (?); the novel, 1750 - 1830; Frankenstein's unnamed monster; the co-authored pseudonym Michael Field; nineteenth century ghostwriting; and a postmodern hoax on national identity. The editor's introduction places the essays within the context of the historical trajectory of anonymous authorship. Essential reading for anyone interested in authorship and the history of the book.

Fashioning Horror

Julia Petrov,Gudrun D. Whitehead
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Author : Julia Petrov,Gudrun D. Whitehead
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350036192

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Fashioning Horror by Julia Petrov,Gudrun D. Whitehead Pdf

From Jack the Ripper to Frankenstein, Halloween customs to Alexander McQueen collections, Fashioning Horror examines how terror is fashioned visually, symbolically, and materially through fashion and costume, in literature, film, and real life. With a series of case studies that range from sensationalist cinema and Slasher films to true crime and nineteenth-century literature, the volume investigates the central importance of clothing to the horror genre, and broadens our understanding of both material and popular culture. Arguing that dress is fundamental to our understanding of character and setting within horror, the chapters also reveal how the grotesque and horrific is at the center of fashion itself, with its potential for instability, disguise, and carnivalesque subversion. Packed with original research, and bringing together a range of international scholars, the book is the first to thoroughly examine the aesthetics of terror and the role of fashion in the construction of horror.

Monstrous Progeny

Lester D. Friedman,Allison B. Kavey
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Author : Lester D. Friedman,Allison B. Kavey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813573700

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Monstrous Progeny by Lester D. Friedman,Allison B. Kavey Pdf

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? Monstrous Progeny takes readers on a fascinating exploration of the Frankenstein family tree, tracing the literary and intellectual roots of Shelley’s novel from the sixteenth century and analyzing the evolution of the book’s figures and themes into modern productions that range from children’s cartoons to pornography. Along the way, media scholar Lester D. Friedman and historian Allison B. Kavey examine the adaptation and evolution of Victor Frankenstein and his monster across different genres and in different eras. In doing so, they demonstrate how Shelley’s tale and its characters continue to provide crucial reference points for current debates about bioethics, artificial intelligence, cyborg lifeforms, and the limits of scientific progress. Blending an extensive historical overview with a detailed analysis of key texts, the authors reveal how the Frankenstein legacy arose from a series of fluid intellectual contexts and continues to pulsate through an extraordinary body of media products. Both thought-provoking and entertaining, Monstrous Progeny offers a lively look at an undying and significant cultural phenomenon.