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

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 dessin es. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526108917
• ISBN13: 9781526108913
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"