The Afterlives of Frankenstein - Popular and Artistic Adaptations and Reimaginings

An exploration of the treatment of Mary Shelley''s Frankenstein in popular art and culture, this book examines adaptations in film, comics, theatre, art, video-games and more, to illuminate how the novel''s myth has evolved in the two centuries since its publication. Divided into four sections, The Afterlives of Frankenstein considers the cultural dialogues Mary Shelley''s novel has engaged with in specific historical moments; the extraordinary examples of how Frankenstein has suffused our cultural consciousness; and how the Frankenstein myth has become something to play with, a locus for reinvention and imaginative interpretation. In the final part, artists respond to the Frankenstein legacy today, reintroducing it into cultural circulation in ways that speak creatively to current anxieties and concerns. Bringing together popular interventions that riff off Shelley''s major themes, chapters survey such works as Frankenstein in Baghdad , Bob Dylan''s recent "My Own Version of You", the graphic novel series Destroyer with its Black cast of characters, Jane Louden''s The Mummy! , the first Japanese translation of Frankenstein, "The New Creator", the iconic Frankenstein mask and Kenneth Brannagh''s Mary Shelley''s Frankenstein film. A deep-dive into the crevasses of Frankenstein adaptation and lore, this volume offers compelling new directions for scholarship surrounding the novel through dynamic critical and creative responses to Shelley''s original.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth A Fay, Robert I Lublin
• Assisted by: Elizabeth A. Fay (Editor), Robert I. Lublin (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.09.2025
• EAN: 9781350351608
• ISBN: 978-1-350-35160-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 232 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Film history, theory or criticism, Literary studies: from c 2000