Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture

by Jon Turney

Book Overview

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a tale crafted two centuries ago to awaken thrilling horror, is a story that speaks to deep fears and desires that lie at the heart of our responses to biological science. Tracing the history of the development of biological science and how it has been received and understood by the public over two centuries, Turney's book argues that the Frankenstein story governs much of today's debate about the onrushing new age of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300074174
• ISBN13: 9780300074178
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"