It's Alive!: A Visual History of Frankenstein

A vivid, visual, history of Mary Shelley's famous book, which commemorates the 200th anniversary of its publication, and reveals its enduring appeal.

List of contents

Director's Foreword by Colin B. Bailey

Too Horrible for Human Eyes: The Frankenstein Mystique by Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger

Chapter 1: The Gothic Background

Chapter 2: The Spark of Being: Science in Frankenstein

Chapter 3: Romantic Childhoods

Chapter 4: Summer of 1816

Chapter 5: Frankenstein in Her Time

Chapter 6: Living On

Chapter 7: Frankenstein on Stage and Screen

Chapter 8: Frankenstein Delineated

Illustrations

Works Cited

Acknowledgments

Index

About the author

Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger is the curator of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at The New York Public Library. She co-curated Shelley's Ghost: The Afterlife of a Poet and Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era; she wrote the companion volume of the same title for the latter exhibition. She holds a PhD from New York University and lives in New York.

Summary

A vivid, visual, history of Mary Shelley's famous book, which explains its enduring popularity in the theatre, the cinema, and to the general public.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger, Elizabeth Denlinger, Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger, Denlinger Elizabeth Campbell
• Publisher: Giles
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781911282419
• ISBN: 978-1-911282-41-9
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 279 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 1710 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Popular Culture, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, English, ART / History / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, ART / Popular Culture, ART / Subjects & Themes / Science Fiction & Fantasy, History of art / art & design styles, Films, cinema, Theatre Studies, History of Art, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers