Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster's Eternal Lives in Popular Culture

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most popular novels in western literature. It has been adapted and re-assembled in countless forms, from Hammer Horror films to young-adult books and bandes dessinees. Beginning with the idea of the 'Frankenstein Complex', this edited collection provides a series of creative readings that explore the elaborate intertextual networks that make up the novel's remarkable afterlife. It broadens the scope of research on Frankenstein while deepening our understanding of a text that, 200 years after its original publication, continues to intrigue and terrify us in new and unexpected ways. -- .

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'...covers an impressively wide range of adaptations of Shelleys classic and that can only be warmly recommended to anyone interested in Frankenstein, or in adaptation studies in general for that matter.'
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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