Coming Soon Bride of Frankenstein (film|minutes)

Found on Amazon:

Bride of Frankenstein (film|minutes) 

Paperback – September 9, 2025

by Shane Denson (Author)

Full details and preview at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1643150847/.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lever Press

Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 9, 2025

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 215 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1643150847

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1643150840

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.49 x 7 inches

The inaugural volume in the film|minutes book series, this book offers a close, minute-by-minute analysis of director James Whale’s iconic 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein. Alternating between a variety of analytical lenses, including descriptive, historical, and philosophical, this study breaks from conventional forms of film-analytical writing and offers an experiment in defamiliarization and looking anew. In the 1930s, the film opened a space for reflection on the rapid normalization of filmic sound, which it both relies on and estranges. In the 2020s, Bride of Frankenstein brings forth questions of new technological mediums such as artificial intelligence and the transformation of human agency. Shane Denson argues that such associations should not be written off as mere anachronism, but seen, rather, as a strategy of serialization; that is, it is by means of such anachronism that a film like Bride of Frankenstein remains open to new developments and novel situations, and thus comes alive for future viewers.

Volumes in the film|minutes series cut up films into segments of exactly one minute and transform each minute into an innovative tool for thinking with the film. Each volume works rigorously with the concept of “the minute” as a non-cinematic scale/quantity, a means to zoom in on (dis)orderly fragments that do not necessarily respect the confinements of cinematic form or meaning. As a critical practice, the focus on minutes causes disruptions and displacement that create novel connections and perspectives, and uncovers hidden traces, making it possible to watch each film anew.

About the Author

Shane Denson is Professor of Film and Media Studies, and by courtesy, of German Studies and of Communication at Stanford University, where he also serves as Director of the Program in Modern Thought & Literature. His research interests span a variety of media and historical periods, including phenomenological and media-philosophical approaches to film, digital media, and serialized popular forms.

Creatures of Fancy – Mary Shelley in Dundee (2019)

I recently came across this interesting collection from the Abertay Historical Society of Dundee, Scotland.

Creatures of Fancy – Mary Shelley in Dundee (2019)

£7.50; ISBN 978-0-900019-61-6

A book of essays exploring Mary Shelley’s time in Dundee, the influence it would have on her life and work, and the rapidly growing scientific and cultural life of the town in the early 19th century.

The book can be ordered directly from the Abertay Historical Society at https://abertay.org.uk/product/creatures-of-fancy-mary-shelley-in-dundee-2019/. There is also an associated presentation available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCOfld9m8j8&t=4s&ab_channel=AbertayHistoricalSociety. 

Description

CREATURES OF FANCY – MARY SHELLEY IN DUNDEE

Gordon Bannerman, Kenneth Baxter, Daniel Cook, Matthew Jarron

In June 1812 the future author of Frankenstein, Mary Godwin (later Mrs Percy Shelley), arrived in Dundee as a guest of the Baxter family. Her time in the rapidly developing town would have a significant influence on her – here for the first time she was inspired to become a writer.

This publication looks at Mary’s connections to Dundee through three separate essays, with a foreword by Billy Kay. In the first chapter, Gordon Bannerman describes the background to her visit, the connections between her family and that of textile merchant William Thomas Baxter, the friendship she developed with Baxter’s daughter Isabella and the subsequent influence of Isabella’s husband David Booth. All of this is considered in the context of the unique religious and political life of Dundee.

Mary’s visit coincided with notable developments in medicine and an increasing interest in studying nature and science, as well as a growth of popular literature and a new theatre for the town. In the second chapter, Matthew Jarron and Kenneth Baxter explore both the cultural and scientific life of Dundee at this time.

In the final chapter, Daniel Cook examines the depiction of Scotland in both Frankenstein and a later novel, The Last Man, showing that Mary’s experiences during her time here continued to have an impact on her work.

CFP Frankensteinian Resonance: Transtemporal Reanimations in Fiction, Film, and Video (11/30/2025)

Frankensteinian Resonance: Transtemporal Reanimations in Fiction, Film, and Video

deadline for submissions:
November 30, 2025

full name / name of organization:
Assoc. Prof. Ela İpek Gündüz, Gaziantep University, Turkey & Dr. Ercan Gürova, Ankara University, Turkey

contact email:
frankensteinianresonance@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/07/29/frankensteinian-resonance-transtemporal-reanimations-in-fiction-film-and-video

Call for Book Chapters

Frankensteinian Resonance: Transtemporal Reanimations in Fiction, Film, and Video

“Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy series

Editors’ Introduction

Considering the still resonating waves of Mary Shelley’s timeless novel Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus (1818), due to its conveying the notions, issues, and messages which are both relevant to current times, and as a reflection of its own time, ‘Frankenstein’ continues to be a very appealing trope, phenomenon or myth. The very idea of “humaneness” is speculated continuously due to the embeddedness of the “Frankenstein” the creator, the monster, and the novel itself, including its writer, within the literary and cultural landscape. It is an undeniable fact that it has been perpetually remembered and reinvented due to its uniqueness, even in the 21st century, prompting producers to adapt it. Yet, how it affects, appeals to, finds correspondences with, and elicits reactions or appreciations may be varied. Nevertheless, regardless of this differentiation in both the re-handlings and/or remembering, as well as the responses, the very speciality of the text remains visible. Notwithstanding the conventions of the genres or the adaptation mediums, as a very special text, Frankenstein transgresses the socio-cultural and even spatio-temporal boundaries that pave the way for the appreciation of contemporary readers and/or audiences.

The proposed edited volume, Frankensteineian Resonance: Transtemporal Reanimations in Fiction, Film, and Video, seeks to provide a rigorous, interdisciplinary exploration of how the Frankenstein mythos continues to evolve, adapt, and resonate across contemporary media landscapes. The volume thus proposes Frankenstein as a transtextual and transtemporal entity, a metaphorical conduit through which trauma, memory, identity, and otherness are endlessly renegotiated. It examines how contemporary rewritings and adaptations, spanning various genres and platforms, reveal the persistence of Frankensteinian concerns with artificial life, the ethics of creation, and the blurred boundaries between human and nonhuman. By assembling approximately 20 original chapters that analyse iconic novels, films, video games, and theatrical adaptations through transtemporal lenses, this collection aims to contribute to Gothic studies, adaptation theory, science fiction criticism, and broader discussions on the posthuman condition. Contributions will be selected through an open international call targeting scholars in literature, film, and cultural studies with PhDs or equivalent credentials.

Each contributor will offer a close and original analysis of a novel, film, or media work that actively reimagines the Frankenstein myth. Rather than adopting a purely descriptive approach, each chapter will develop a coherent and critical argument, connecting the selected work to key interpretive frameworks, such as monstrosity, hybridity, technological creation, identity fragmentation, and moral ambiguity.

Contributors will be asked to choose a specific fictional or cinematic text and engage it through relevant theoretical and cultural lenses. While the exact titles and authors of the chapters will be finalised after the acceptance of proposals, all chapters will be unified by the volume’s overarching interest in Frankenstein as a resonant, reconfigurable myth that speaks to evolving human concerns.

Please choose one of the topics listed below as the focus of your chapter. Proposals should clearly identify the selected work (novel, film, or media) and your theoretical framework.



Part I - Literary Re-Visitations/ Rewritings

1-Frankenstein Unbound (1973) by Brian W. Aldiss

2-The Frankenstein Papers (1986) by Fred Saberhagen

3-Poor Things (1992) by Alasdair Gray

4-The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (1995) by Theodore Roszak

5-The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (2008) by Peter Ackroyd

6-Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013) by Ahmed Saadawi

7-Frankissstein: A Love Story (2019) by Jeanette Winterson

8-Heart of a Dog (1925) by Mikhail Bulgakov

9-Golem (1915) by Gustav Meyrink

10-The Sandman (1816) by E.T.A Hoffmann



Part II- Movie/ Theatre/Video Game Adaptations



1-Frankenstein (1931) & Bride of Frankenstein (1935) – Dir. James Whale

2-The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) – Dir. Terence Fisher

3-Young Frankenstein (1974) – Dir. Mel Brooks

4-Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) – Dir. Kenneth Branagh

5-Frankenstein (2004) – Dir. Marcus Nispel

6-Victor Frankenstein (2015) – Dir. Paul McGuigan

7-Frankenstein (2015) – Dir. Bernard Rose

8-The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015–2017) – ITV Series

9-Frankenstein (1981) – by Victor Gialanella

10-Frankenstein – Playing with Fire (1988) – by Barbara Field

11-Frankenstein (2007) – by Nick Dear, directed by Danny Boyle

12-Frankenstein (2017) a musical theatre adaptation by Eric B. Sirota

13-Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster (1995)

14-Frankenstein: Master of Death (2015)

15-Frankenstein: Beyond the Time (2016)

16-Frankenstein Wars (2017)

17-Poor Things (2023)



Submission Details and Timeline

Please send a 300–500 word abstract describing the proposed chapter’s theory/framework, contributions, and structure, and a brief bio (100–150 words) to frankensteinianresonance@gmail.com

The abstract submission deadline is November 30, 2025.

Submission of Complete Chapters (for selected abstracts): March 30, 2026.

Final chapters will be expected to be around 5500-6000 words, in English, and referenced in MLA 9 style.

The book is expected to be published in late 2026, following peer review and editorial revisions.

All submissions will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer-review process.

For inquiries and questions, please feel free to contact us at frankensteinianresonance@gmail.com



Editors: Assoc. Prof. Ela İpek Gündüz, Gaziantep University, Turkey

Dr. Ercan Gürova, Ankara University, Turkey



Last updated August 4, 2025

CFP Frank*ology, or the Thoroughly Modern Prometheus: A Re-vision of Sensualities in Romanticism from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (virtual conference) (9/15/2025; online 11/21/2025)

Frank*ology, or the Thoroughly Modern Prometheus: A Re-vision of Sensualities in Romanticism from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (virtual conference)

deadline for submissions:
September 15, 2025

full name / name of organization:
West of Canon Press

contact email:
editor@westofcanon.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/24/frankology-or-the-thoroughly-modern-prometheus-a-re-vision-of-sensualities-in



Frank*ology, or the Thoroughly Modern Prometheus: A Re-vision of Sensualities in Romanticism from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (virtual conference)



West of Canon Press seeks papers and presentations on Frankenstein from academics, artists, and folks across disciplines for a virtual conference celebrating the long legacy of this incredible book. We are looking for academic style papers as well as creative responses to Frankenstein and its related media.



A non-comprehensive list of what we’re hoping to see and include:

• Transgender identity (specifically transmasculinities) in Frankenstein and other works by the Romantics.
• Lake Geneva studies- Looking at Shelley-adjacent Romantics in a different light (discussions of polyamory and free love welcome.).
• The poetics of monstrosity
• Incest and queerness in Frankenstein
• Disability studies and Frankenstein
• Indigiqueer and racialized perspectives on Frankenstein
• Cinematic depictions of the creature, including Karloff, Warhol, Zelda Williams, Hammer Horror, James Whale etc.
• Theatre, music, and dance iterations of Frankenstein.
• Adaptations and responses ie. Frank Kiss Stein, Ex Machina, Penny Dreadful, Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Frankenstein in Baghdad, Junji Ito’s manga, Young Frankenstein, Danny Boyle’s stage adaptation with Benedict Cumberbatch
• Guillermo del Toro’s longstanding love affair with Frankenstein.
• Nautical queerness, eco-queerness and homoeroticism in Frankenstein
• The epistolary
• Phenomenology
• The cadaver and the soul; complicating ‘new life’ in Frankenstein via crime, race, religion etc.
• Filmic lore about Frankenstein which is parallel to canon but taken as truth; peg necks, Elizabeth as the Bride etc.
• Everyone’s Met Frankenstein: Frankenstein’s pop culture encounters with The Munsters, Scooby-Doo, Abbott and Costello, Alvin and the Chipmunks etc.
• Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley
• Frankenstein and queer collaboration.
• Mental Illness and neurodiversity.
• Frankenstein, editorial processes, and collaboration.
• Artificial Intelligence as Adam
• Short stories, poems, plays, songs, dance, art-works, etc.,

The conference will hopefully conclude with a viewing of Guillermo del Toro’s new adaptation of the work, which Netflix says is scheduled for November of this year, but we will have a firm date of Friday November 21, 2025. CV, artist’s statement, and abstracts of 200-500 words for a 20 minute presentation, panel or creative project can be sent to Oscar Anderson at editor@westofcanon.com by September 15. 

While we’re not requiring content warnings for abstracts, please inform ahead if there’s any part of your presentation or abstract that flashes and/or contains bright light.


Last updated June 26, 2025

CFP Routledge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft: Wollstonecraft at Work (1/15/2026)

Routledge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft: Wollstonecraft at Work

deadline for submissions:
January 15, 2026

full name / name of organization:
Cynthia Richards and Shawn Lisa Maurer

contact email:
crichards@wittenberg.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/27/routledge-companion-to-mary-wollstonecraft-wollstonecraft-at-work


Routledge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft: Wollstonecraft at Work
Call for Papers

Mary Wollstonecraft’s contributions as a philosopher are uncontested, her reputation cemented by such recent publications as The Wollstonecraftian Mind (Routledge, 2019), the first collection on a woman philosopher to appear in the Routledge Philosophical Minds series. By contrast, her work as a writer remains unsettled. We know her work to be passionate: angry with Edmund Burke, she composed the Vindication of the Rights of Man in six weeks. She writes Letters Written During a Short Residence to an indifferent lover, the American businessman Gilbert Imlay, and through her romantically charged descriptions, wins the reluctant affections of the Enlightenment philosopher William Godwin instead. As this example makes manifest, if Wollstonecraft succeeds as a writer, it seemingly happens by accident, a byproduct of the fervor of her convictions. We grant her a place in the literary canon because her influence is undeniable and not because the quality of her production is uniform and unassailable.

This Routledge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft will challenge this reading by focusing on Wollstonecraft as a writer at work, a writer consciously and deliberately innovating to produce a rich and varied oeuvre that reveals forms of intellectual and professional labor beyond her better-known philosophical treatises and novels. Instead, this volume will make the case for Wollstonecraft as an artist first and a polemicist second, yet an artist whose creative interventions stayed true to her principles in the face of conservative backlash. In this regard, the volume comes closest to emulating The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft (2002) while building upon the more multidisciplinary Mary Wollstonecraft in Context (Cambridge 2020).

Yet even as the volume will argue for the intrinsic quality of her writing, it will also recognize that the work remains incomplete. The Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) had a planned second volume that was never realized; The Wrongs of Woman (1798) was published unfinished. Her primer to her young daughter, Fanny, has yet to be published as a stand-alone text. But her work also remains incomplete because it continues to exert such a powerful force more than two hundred years after her death. Although the feminist political implications of her work, which continues to be “constantly re-moulded in feminism’s changing image,” as Barbara Taylor writes, have been traced in multiple ways, the impact of her literary production and readers’ engagement with that multifaceted work, in the academy, in popular culture, and in the classroom, has yet to be fully explored.

We envision essays relating to three broad categories–Wollstonecraft at Work, Wollstonecraft in the World, and Wollstonecraft in the Classroom–and invite essays on all stages of Wollstonecraft’s career and all genres in which she worked. Possible topics might include Wollstonecraft as a working woman/professional writer/public intellectual; Wollstonecraft as an artistic innovator; Wollstonecraft’s growth and development; Wollstonecraft and visual culture; Wollstonecraft as an educator. We also seek essays that address Wollstonecraft’s historical as well as contemporary resonances in literary, artistic, and feminist political contexts across the globe. We encourage reflections on the productive imbrications of Wollstonecraft’s life and work; on her critical reception, her artistic legacies, and her place in popular culture. Finally, we invite essays on editing and teaching Wollstonecraft’s work. How is her influence felt throughout the world and how is her work taught in various regions and countries? How does she continue to educate us and our students?

We welcome preliminary proposals on these or related topics. Please send abstracts of approximately 250 words to both editors via email by January 15, 2026.

Shawn Lisa Maurer (College of the Holy Cross): smaurer@holycross.edu

Cynthia Richards (Wittenberg University): crichards@wittenberg.edu



Last updated July 3, 2025

Coming Soon - Oxford World's Classics Edition of Mathilda

Mathilda
Mary Shelley

Edited by Deanna P. Koretsky
Oxford World's Classics

Full details and ordering information at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/mathilda-9780192883049. 

A new edition of Mary Shelley's second novel, which remained unpublished until 1959 due to its themes of suicide and incest

Offers an original transcription from the only known manuscript copy of Mathilda; one of only three original transcriptions in circulation

Examines how the major themes in the book reflect the political discourse of the time and presents new avenues for understanding Shelley's views on gender and sexuality

Includes appendices such as 'The Mourner,' Shelley's retelling of Mathilda set in the context of transatlantic slavery, and other texts that help readers understand the breadth of Shelley's social consciousness



Paperback

This item is not yet published. It is available for pre-orders and will ship on 13 May 2025.

208 Pages

7.7 x 5.1 inches

ISBN: 9780192883049

Out in 2026 - Oxford World's Classics Combined Edition of The Last Man and The Journal of Sorrow

The Last Man and The Journal of Sorrow
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Edited by Eileen M. Hunt
Oxford World's Classics

Full details and ordering information at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-last-man-and-the-journal-of-sorrow-9780198892793.

Presents two of Mary Shelley's most important works, never before published together

Includes a new introduction drawing out connections between Shelley's novel and the journal, and their relationships to political science fiction and life writing

Shelley's groundbreaking The Last Man was the first major modern telling of postapocalyptic pandemic which still resonates 200 years after publication


Paperback

This item is not yet published. It is available for pre-orders and will ship on 13 April 2026.

512 Pages

7.7 x 5.1 inches

ISBN: 9780198892793

Coming Soon History of A Six Weeks' Tour Oxford World's Classics Edition

History of A Six Weeks' Tour: Through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva, and of the Glaciers of Chamouni

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Edited by Cian Duffy and Anna Mercer
Oxford World's Classics

Full details and ordering information at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/history-of-a-six-weeks-tour-9780192858276.

Published for the first time in paperback, detailing the account of two journeys made by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

An important and revealing but less well-known work by two of the most famous authors of the Romantic period

Includes a detailed introduction, explanatory notes, appendices, and maps


Paperback

This item is not yet published. It is available for pre-orders and will ship on 13 August 2025.

192 Pages | 3 maps

7.7 x 5.1 inches

ISBN: 9780192858276

Recent Publication - A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley (2023)

Sorry to have missed this earlier.

Non-Fiction Title: A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

Publisher site: https://ifwgpublishing.com/non-fiction-title-a-vindication-of-monsters-essays-on-mary-wollstonecraft-and-mary-shelley/.

In 1797 an extraordinary visionary died, leaving behind a grieving husband, a two-year-old daughter, and a newborn. The woman was Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughter Fanny Imlay, and her baby Mary Godwin, who, through many trials and tribulations, grew up to become the remarkable Mary Shelley, creator of one of the most important books in literature: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus.

While many books have examined both women’s lives, their remarkable similarities, their passions, joys, and their grief, A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, delves deeper into the stories behind both women, their connections to historical events, society, their philosophies, and their political contributions to their time. These essays and memoirs explore Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Shelley’s circle of friends, including her husband, the capricious poet Percy Shelley; the libertine Romantic Lord Byron; the first modern vampire author John Polidori; and other contemporary creatives who continue to be inspired by both women today.

Contents:

Preface by Sara Karloff, actress and Boris Karloff’s daughter
Introduction (‘Examining Frankenstein’) by Leslie S. Klinger (editor of the highly-acclaimed New Annotated Frankenstein)
Foreword by Lisa Morton, six-time Bram Stoker Award® winner
‘In His Eyes Our Own Yearning: Seeing Mary Shelley and Her Creature’ by Nancy Holder
‘The Maker Remade: Mary Shelley In Fiction’ by Matthew R Davis
‘Beauty And The Grotesque’ by Michele Brittany
‘Mary Shelley And The World Of Monsters’ by Rob Hood
‘An Articulation Of Beauty In The Film ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’’ by Donald Prentice Jr
‘Mapping The Collective Body Of Frankenstein’s Brides’ by Carina Bissett
‘Marys And Motherhood’ and Preamble by Claire Fitzpatrick
‘Don’t Feed The Monsters’ by Hk Stubbs
‘My Mother Hands Me A Book’ by Piper Mejia
‘A Bold Question: Consent And The Experimental Subject In Frankenstein’ by Octavia Cade
‘Mary Shelley And Percy Shelley’s Fascination With The Creation Myth And Sexual Androgyny’ by Ciarán Bruder
‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein And Revenge Killers’ by Anthony P Fergusson
‘Medicine And Mary Shelley’ by Grant Butler
‘Frankenstein’s Language Model’ by Jason Franks
‘Mary Shelley: Pandemics, Isolation, And Writing’ by Lee Murray
‘Mary W And Mary S: A Story With Objects’ by Lucy Sussex

A comprehensive essay on the motivations and content of this book by the editor, Claire Fitzpatrick (in Ginger Nuts of Horror).

A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

Edited by Claire Fitzpatrick
Non-Fiction
English language
ISBN: 978-1-922856-40-1 (print)
978-1-922856-41-8 (ebook)
RRP: US$16.99 (US$6.99 ebook)
Publisher: IFWG Publishing International
252 pages – paperback, English
Binding: Perfect bound
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm
eBook and Print Formats: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iBook
Key Words: Non-fiction; Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary Shelley; essays; gothic literature; horror; literature;
Publication Date: 15 October 2023 (global release)
Distributor: World-wide through IPG (IPG specific in North America, NewSouth Books (partner) in Australia/New Zealand, and UID(Marsden/Eurospan) in UK/Europe)

CFP Mary Shelley Today: *Frankenstein* in the Twenty-First Century (2/1/2025)

Mary Shelley Today: *Frankenstein* in the Twenty-First Century

deadline for submissions:
February 1, 2025

full name / name of organization:
Timothy Ruppert and Danette DiMarco

contact email:
timothy.ruppert@sru.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/26/mary-shelley-today-frankenstein-in-the-twenty-first-century

Mary Shelley Today: Frankenstein in the Twenty-First Century seeks to reevaluate the influence of Mary Shelley, and particularly her most prominent novel, on literature and imaginative work of the last quarter century (defined as 1999-2024). This project engages with works and authors on whom little has been written to date in the hope of providing exciting new resources for Romanticists and general readers alike.

We seek contributions between 4,500-6,500 words. While we do not wish to delimit authors in terms of focus, we will give special preference to scholarship on undertreated works and writers, for example, Seanan McGuire’s Down Among the Sticks and Bones (2017), Theodora Goss’s The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (2017), Kiersten White’s The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein (2018), John Kessel’s Pride and Prometheus (2018), Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (trans. 2018), and Jennifer McMahon’s The Children on the Hill (2022). We are also interested in reinterpretations of Frankenstein in other genres, including works such as the Japanese manga series Fullmetal Alchemist,cinematic products such as Larry Fessenden’s 2019 Depraved or the Doctor Who episode ‘The Haunting of Villa Diodati’ (2020), or stage plays such as Eric Sirota’s musical adaptation of Frankenstein (2017). Please note that we already have a chapter concerning Peter Lovesey’s 1999 novel, The Vault, and so will not accept submissions exclusively concerning that work.

Please submit a 500/1,000-word proposal along with your contact information and a biographical note (up to 200 words) to both co-editors by 1 February 2025. Further details on style and formatting will be provided to prospective contributors upon acceptance.

Accepted contributors should plan to submit complete book chapters (4,500/6,500 words, including references and footnotes) by 1 August 2025.

This volume is already under contract to a leading academic publisher, so the manuscript will likely go for peer review in late 2025. The projected publication date is 2026. Please contact both Danette DiMarco (danette.dimarco@sru.edu) and Timothy Ruppert (timothy.ruppert@sru.edu) with any questions.



Last updated January 2, 2025

CFP Hideous Progenies: Adulterous Adaptations of Frankenstein in the 21st-Century (7/1/2024)

Hideous Progenies: Adulterous Adaptations of Frankenstein in the 21st-Century

deadline for submissions: 

July 1, 2024

full name / name of organization: 

Kyle William Bishop

contact email: 

bishopk@suu.edu

source:https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/05/30/hideous-progenies-adulterous-adaptations-of-frankenstein-in-the-21st-century

With the commercial and critical success of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things (2023), I am assembling a collection of scholarly essays that will explore additional unfaithful 21st-century adaptations (in various media) of Mary Shelley’s 1818 masterpiece, Frankenstein. Taking a page from Thomas Leitch’s idea of the “Ethics of Infidelity,” I propose that investigating the longevity of Shelley’s essential story (the overreacher plot coupled with an animated or re-animated creature) as translated into a variety of “adulterous adaptations” would demonstrate how the plot, structure, character types, themes, etc. of Frankenstein transcend mere faithful adaptations to become increasingly relevant to different (modern) audiences.

My recent internet and database searches for “unfaithful adaptations of Frankenstein” produced few results, as most popular and scholarly studies of Frankenstein adaptations are more interested in the more faithful (if not most faithful) adaptations. This anthology would thus break new academic ground in terms of both Frankenstein studies and adaptation studies by collecting scholarly approaches to non-faithful adaptations of Frankenstein in all kinds of media that have appeared over the past two decades, the focus being (1) a lack of adaptive fidelity and (2) newer adaptations and texts that may have yet to be given the scholarly treatment.

I see the adulterous adaptations of any work falling into two broad categories: overt and thematic. The overt adaptations, in my mind, use similar if not the same characters as Shelley undertaking tasks and having experiences somewhat similar to the novel, all with an overt in-text reference to “Frankenstein” along the way. These text would include

● The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (2008) by Peter Ackroyd

● Frankenweenie (2012) from Tim Burton

● Penny Dreadful (2014–2016) from John Logan

● The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015–2017) from Barry Langford and Benjamin Ross

● Destroyer (2018) by Victor LaValle and Dietrich Smith

● The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein (2019) by Kiersten White

● Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match (2023) by Sally Thorne

● Lisa Frankenstein (2024) from Zelda Williams

The second category of adaptations are even less faithful works, “inspirations” or “essences” based on the themes and some plot points from Frankenstein, such as

● Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013) by Ahmed Saadawi

● Ex Machina (2014) from Alex Garland

● Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) from Joss Whedon

● Patchwork (2015) from Tyler MacIntyre

● Westworld (2016–2022) from Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan

● Blade Runner 2049 (2017) from Denis Villeneuve

● Depraved (2019) from Larry Fessenden

● The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (2023) from Bomani J. Story

● Poor Things (2023) from Yorgos Lanthimos

These diverse works all demonstrate the ongoing significance of Shelley’s novel—as antecedent, source material, inspiration, or pastiche—and illustrate how her tale has almost become a subgenre of Gothic horror unto itself, evolving and changing to reflect the most pressing cultural anxieties and concerns of the current century.

My goal with this collection is to present breadth and variety, and so I would prefer to have as many texts represented with as little overlap as possible. To that end, I am welcoming proposals on any literary or filmic work with clear thematic ties to Shelley’s original Frankenstein novel (especially those listed above) that have appeared over the past decade or so.

Proposals must include

● a 200–250 word title and abstract of the suggested chapter,

● a loose working bibliography of both primary and secondary sources, and

● a brief statement of qualifications, focusing on relevant scholarly production.

Please email proposals to bishopk@suu.edu no later than July 1, 2024—and I welcome multiple submissions to facilitate breadth and lack of overlap.

Who Am I?

In terms of Frankenstein, I have taught the novel numerous times in upper-division courses on Gothic literature, literary adaptations (dedicating an entire course to the subject for the bicentennial 2018 year), and a study abroad summer program to Ingolstadt, Geneva, and Chamonix in 2016. I have also written and published two articles on Frankenstein:

● “The Subaltern Brides of Frankenstein: Liberating Shelley’s Unrealized Female Creature on Screen.” Creolizing Frankenstein, edited by Michael Paradiso-Michau, Rowman & Littlefield International, 2024, pp. 83–99.

● “The Frankenstein Complex on the Small Screen: Mary Shelley’s Motivic Novel as Adjacent Adaptation.” Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster’s Eternal Lives in Popular Culture, edited by Dennis Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry, Manchester UP, 2018, pp. 111–127.

I also presented “From Prometheus to Pygmalion to Pandora: The Feminist Threat of Frankenstein’s ‘Dark Brides’” at the 2024 Northeast Modern Language Association annual conference, and I am developing that article for publication with Michael Torregrossa.

In terms of editing, I have three co-edited collections under my belt, two scholarly volumes and a special issue of a journal:

● The Post Zombie: The Current and Future State of the Living Dead. Co-edited with C. Wylie Lenz and Angela Tenga, McFarland, 2024. [forthcoming this fall]

● The Written Dead: Essays on the Literary Zombie. Co-edited with Angela Tenga, McFarland, 2017.

● After/Lives: What’s Next for Humanity. Special edition of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, co-edited with Sarah Juliet Lauro, vol. 25, nos. 2–3, 2014.

In addition to being on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal in the Fantastic in the Arts, I have also served as a peer reviewer for over two dozen journals, over a dozen book proposals, and two doctoral dissertations for international graduate programs.

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CFP Mary Shelley’s The Last Man and Global Issues Collection (7/31/2024)

Call for Book Chapters: “Mary Shelley’s The Last Man and Global Issues”

deadline for submissions: July 31, 2024

contact email: reyam.rammahi@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/01/10/call-for-book-chapters-%E2%80%9Cmary-shelley%E2%80%99s-the-last-man-and-global-issues%E2%80%9D

Vernon Press invites book chapter proposals for the forthcoming edited volume “Mary Shelley’s The Last Man and Global Issues”, edited by Reyam Rammahi.


Much research has already been done on many aspects of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man. However, this volume seeks contributions that link the novel with today’s crucial issues like the COVID-19 pandemic. The Last Man is often associated with the apocalypse, proving that the novel speaks to today’s issues, especially the recent pandemic. The volume welcomes discussions from scholars invested in the rapidly growing interest in postcolonial studies, medical humanities, racist discourses in literature, biopolitics, and disability studies. Literary and interdisciplinary contributions are welcome. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Race and notions of racism in the novel
• The East/West binary
• The association of the fictional plague and COVID-19 with the “Other”
• Oppositions between warring political and social factions in the novel
• Nation and nationalism

Please submit a one-page proposal and a short bio by July 31, 2024 to Reyam Rammahi at reyam.rammahi@gmail.com



Last updated June 25, 2024

New from Bloomsbury Academic - Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein: The Making of a Hollywood Monster

Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein: The Making of a Hollywood Monster

Peggy Webling (Author) , Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum (Author) , Bruce Graver (Author)

Ordering information available at https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/peggy-webling-and-the-story-behind-frankenstein-9781350371651/. Available in print (hardcover and paperback) and as an ebook. 

Product details

Published Apr 18 2024

Edition 1st

Extent 344

Imprint Bloomsbury Academic

Illustrations 15 bw illus

Dimensions 9 x 6 inches

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

Description

The 1931 Universal Pictures film adaptation of Frankenstein directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as the now iconic Monster claims in its credits to be 'Adapted from the play by Peggy Webling'.

Webling's play sought to humanize the creature, was the first stage adaptation to position Frankenstein and his creation as doppelgängers, and offered a feminist perspective on scientific efforts to create life without women, ideas that suffuse today's perceptions of Frankenstein's monster. The original play script exists in several different versions, only two of which have ever been consulted by scholars; no version has ever been published. Nor have scholars had access to Webling's private papers and correspondence, preserved in a family archive, so that the evolution of Frankenstein from book to stage to screen has never been fully charted.

In Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein, Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum (Webling's great grandniece) and Bruce Graver present the full texts of Webling's unpublished play for the first time. A vital critical edition, this book includes:

- the 1927 British Library Frankenstein script used for the first production of the play in Preston, Lancashire

- the 1928 Frankenstein script in the Library of Congress, used for productions in UK provincial theatres from autumn 1928 till 1930

- the 1930 Frankenstein Prompt Script for the London production and later provincial performances, held by the Westminster Archive, London

- Webling's private correspondence including negotiations with theatre managers and Universal Pictures, family letters about the writing and production process, and selected contracts

- Text of the chapter 'Frankenstein' from Webling's unpublished literary memoir, The Story of a Pen for additional context

- Biography of Webling that bears directly on the sensibilities and skills she brought to the writing of her play

- History of how the play came to be written and produced

- The relationship of Webling's play to earlier stage and film adaptations

- An exploration of playwright and screenwriter John L. Balderston's changes to Webling's play and Whale's borrowings from it in the 1931 film

Offering a new perspective on the genesis of the Frankenstein movie, this critical exploration makes available a unique and necessary 'missing link' in the novel's otherwise well-documented transmedia cultural history.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I History and Commentary

Chapter 1 Peggy Webling's Story

Chapter 2 The Other Woman who Created Frankenstein

Chapter 3 From Peake to Whale, and Webling's Missing Link

Part II Texts of Webling's Frankenstein

1927 Version, registered with the Lord Chamberlain on 25 November 1927

1928 Version, copyrighted with the US Library of Congress on 7 September 1928

1930 Prompt Script, performed in London 10 February–12 April 1930

Appendix 1 Excerpts from Webling Letters concerning Frankenstein

Appendix 2 Excerpt from Webling's Unpublished Memoir, The Story of a Pen

Appendix 3 Contracts

Bibliography General Bibliography

Sources from the Webling Archive

Index

Author Information

Peggy Webling (1 January 1871 – 27 June 1949) was a British playwright, novelist and poet.

Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum is a historian specialising in the history of astrology, cosmology and divination. She is the great-grandniece of Peggy Webling, the playwright, and holds a private archive of her papers. She has lectured on the history of Webling’s Frankenstein for specialists and general audiences.

Bruce Graver is Professor of English at Providence College, USA where is a specialist in British Romantic literature. He edited Wordsworth’s Translations of Chaucer and Virgil (1998), co-edited Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads (2003), and contributed many chapters to edited collections as well as writing and lecturing widely about various British Romantic writers, including Mary Shelley.

Out Now - Afterlives of Frankenstein

The Afterlives of Frankenstein: Popular and Artistic Adaptations and Reimaginings

Robert I. Lublin (Anthology Editor) , Elizabeth A. Fay (Anthology Editor)

Publisher site: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/afterlives-of-frankenstein-9781350351561/.

Product details

Published Feb 22 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 248
ISBN 9781350351561
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations Colour images
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Robert I. Lublin and Elizabeth A. Fay

Part 1: Cultural Reinventions

1. “Only from the future”: Frankenstein, The Mummy!, and the Ontology of Revolution, David Baulch (University of West Florida, USA)

2. Frankens-Time: Frankenstein and the Temporal Origins of Artificial Intelligence, Tobias Wilson-Bates (Georgia Gwinnett College)

3. Meiji Japan Responds to Frankenstein: The 1889-90 translation “The New Creator”, Tomoko Nakagawa (University of the Sacred Heart, Japan)

4. Frankenstein Goes Global: Returning the Necropolitical Gaze with Frankenstein in Baghdad, Hugh Charles O'Connell (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)

Part 2: Frankensteinia

5. Frankenstein in the Popular Imagination, Sidney E. Berger (Simmons College, USA)

6. Frankenstein Mask: Perpetuating the Monster Assemblage, Taylor Hagood (Florida Atlantic University, USA)

7. Victor LaValle and Dietrich Smith's Graphic Novel Destroyer (2020), Andrew Shepherd (University of Utah, USA)

Part 3: Playing Frankenstein

8. Staging Mary Shelley in Contemporary Frankenstein Biodramas, Brittany Reid (Brock University, Canada)

9. The Evolving Myth of Frankenstein in Twenty-First-Century Film, Robert I. Lublin (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)

10. The Water and the Corpse: Exploring Nature, Shelley's Echoes, and Twenty-First Century Cultural Anxieties in The Frankenstein Chronicles, Lorna Piatti-Farnell (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)

11. The Aesthetics of Digital Naturecultures in La Belle Games's The Wanderer: Frankenstein's Creature (2019), Andrew Burkett (Union College, USA)

Part 4: Artists Talk Back

12. A Monstrous Circus on Frankenstein: Mediating Shelley's Novel through John Cage's Multimedia Strategies, Miriam Wallace and R. L. Silver (New College of Florida, USA)

13. Frankenstein in Three Chords, Elizabeth A. Fay (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) and James McGirr (Independent Scholar, USA)

14. From Frankenstein to Writing SciFi to Collage, Kate Hart (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)

New Book - Creolizing Frankenstein

Creolizing Frankenstein

EDITED BY MICHAEL R. PARADISO-MICHAU

Publisher site: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538176559/Creolizing-Frankenstein.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 414 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-5381-7653-5 • Hardback • December 2023 • $130.00 • (£100.00)
978-1-5381-7655-9 • eBook • December 2023 • $50.00 • (£38.00)

Series: Creolizing the Canon

Creolizing Frankenstein dissects and critically appreciates Mary Shelley’s 200-year old novel. Contributors advance two claims: first, this story is the product of creolization—the intentional conglomeration of a variety of scientific, mythological, political, religious, gender, educational, historical, and racial discourses. Second, they trace the ways in which Frankenstein has creolized itself into modern and contemporary life and culture in such a way as to have become a new mythology and political statement for each generation. The contributors to this book place Frankenstein into productive conversation with such figures and fields as Frederick Douglass and slave narrative, Frantz Fanon and postcolonial theory, Afro-Caribbean Hispanophone and Francophone literature, nineteenth century labor history, the Black Radical Tradition, Trans studies, feminist theory, Marxism and critical social theory, film studies, music and media studies, Afro-futurism and African futurism, political theory, education theory, Gothic literary studies, and Africana philosophy.

Contributors: Kyle William Bishop, Persephone Braham, Alan M. S. J. Coffee, Emily Datskou,Garrett FitzGerald, Jeremy Matthew Glick, Jane Anna Gordon, Lewis R. Gordon, Raphael Hoermann, Elizabeth Jennerwein, Corey McCall, David McNally, Thomas Meagher, Michael R. Paradiso-Michau, Borna Radnik, Lindsey Smith, Amy Shuffelton, Jasmine Noelle Yarish, Elizabeth Young, Paul Youngquist.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: One Woman’s Text and a Critique of Colonialism

Michael R. Paradiso-Michau

Part I: Race, Gender, and Media

Chapter 1. Black Frankenstein at 200

Elizabeth Young

Chapter 2. Gender, Race, and Frankenstein’s Creature: A Creolized Reading and Decolonial Challenges

Lewis R. Gordon

Chapter 3. The Creation of Identity in Frankenstein and Man Into Woman

Emily Datskou

Chapter 4. Revolutionary Responsibility: Mothering a Monster

Jane Anna Gordon and Elizabeth Jennerwein

Chapter 5. The Subaltern Brides of Frankenstein: Liberating Shelley’s Unrealized Female Creature on Screen

Kyle William Bishop

Chapter 6. Creolization between Horror and Science Fiction: Get Out and the Era of a Third Reconstruction

Jasmine Noelle Yarish

Chapter 7. Funking with Victor: Toward a Genealogy of Revolutionary Desire

Paul Youngquist

Part II: Politics and History

Chapter 8. “You Call These Men a Mob”: Irish Rebels, Slave Insurrectionists, Luddite Martyrs, and the Monstrous Rebirth of the Wretched of the Earth

David McNally

Chapter 9. Frankenstein and Slave rrative: Race, Revulsion, and Radical Revolution

Alan M. S. J. Coffee

Chapter 10. “I have undertaken this vengeance”: Echoes of Race and Specters of Slave Revolt

Raphael Hoermann

Chapter 11. The Creature’s Creole Education

Amy B. Shuffelton

Chapter 12. Hideous Aspects: Decolonial Barbarism and the Epistemic Politics of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Garrett FitzGerald

Part III: Literature, Theory, and Culture

Chapter 13. Galvanic Awakenings: Frankenstein in the Spanish Caribbean

Persephone Braham

Chapter 14. Monstrous Hybridity: Transformative Readings in Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat?

Lindsey Leigh Smith

Chapter 15. Victor Frankenstein and the Crisis of European Man

Thomas Meagher

Chapter 16. “Thinking that liberates itself from the anatamo-critical”: Some Notes on Frankenstein, Fanon, and the Combinatory Prometheus

Jeremy Matthew Glick

Chapter 17. Misinterpellated Monsters

Corey McCall and Borna Radnik

Index

About the Contributors

About the Editor

Michael R. Paradiso-Michau is lecturer in the Department of Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Editor of Reflections on the Religious, the Ethical, and the Political , Paradiso-Michau has published in Continental Philosophy Review; Ethics; Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture; Journal of Scriptural Reasoning; Atlantic Journal of Communication; Radical Philosophy Review; and Shofar. He has also contributed chapters to Listening to Edith Stein: Wisdom for a New Century , Neither Victim Nor Survivor: Thinking toward a New Humanity, and Shifting the Geography of Reason: Gender, Science, and Religion .

Frankenstein Sessions at NeMLA 2024

They Live: Female Monsters and Their Impact on the Frankenstein Tradition and Elsewhere 

Sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association 

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa

55th NeMLA Convention

Boston, MA

7-10 March 2024

Friday

Mar 8 Track 11

04:45-06:15

11.20 They Live: Female Monsters and Their Impact on the Frankenstein Tradition and Elsewhere (Part 1)

Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Bristol Community College

Location: Gardner B (Media Equipped)

British & Cultural Studies and Media Studies

"From Prometheus to Pygmalion to Pandora: The Feminist Threat of Frankenstein’s 'Dark Brides'" Kyle Bishop, Southern Utah University

"Hypertext, the Female Monster, and Other Boundary Creatures in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl" Callie Ingram, University at Buffalo, SUNY

"'I am no one’s': Subverting the ‘Bride of Frankenstein’ in The Frankenstein Chronicles " Sophie-Constanze Bantle, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Saturday

Mar 9 Track 14

10:00-11:30

14.18 They Live: Female Monsters and Their Impact on the Frankenstein Tradition and Elsewhere (Part 2)

Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Bristol Community College

Location: Hampton B (Media Equipped)

British & Cultural Studies and Media Studies

"The Bride Who Survived: Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl (1995) and its Female Monster" Jonathan Rose, University of Passau

"'No more let Life divide...': Serial Brides in Penny Dreadful and The Frankenstein Chronicles " Federica Perazzini, Sapienza-Università di Roma

CFP Romantic Boundaries (Special Issue of Romantic Textualities) (10/10/2023)

CFP–Romantic Boundaries (Special Issue of Romantic Textualities)
Tien, Yu-hung

Source: https://www.romtext.org.uk/romantic-boundaries/

Posted on 08 September 2023


This June, the BARS Early Career and Postgraduate Conference gathered researchers from around the globe to celebrate and to appreciate Romanticism and its legacies at the University of Edinburgh by exploring the theme of ‘boundaries’ within the context of Romantic-period literature and thought. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term ‘boundary’ as: ‘That which serves to indicate the bounds or limits of anything whether material or immaterial; also the limit itself.’ Such a term seems at odds with the spirit of Romanticist thought, which has long been associated with mobility and boundlessness. Conference delegates aptly addressed the complexity of the concept through various representations of boundaries—both tangible and intangible—from a wide range of viewpoints. To continue such a diverse critical dialogue, in collaboration with Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840, they plan to produce a special ‘Romantic Boundaries’ edition of the journal. To widen the scope of our scholarly conversation, not only do they welcome all the conference delegates to consider expanding their conference papers for publications, but they also invite researchers and scholars in general for submissions.

Echoing our conference theme, topics of interest may include, but are not limited to:

• Geographical and spatial boundaries; transnationalism
• Borders, liminal spaces, and boundary crossing
• Temporal boundaries
• Dialogues between genres and disciplines
• Translations and transgressions
• Lived boundaries (including those pertaining to identity, such as gender, race, or sexuality)
• Digital boundaries
• Human and nonhuman boundaries
• Boundaries and reception; public versus private writings
• Past, present, and future limits of the field of Romantic studies and its canon

Successful abstracts will suggest articles that broaden our understanding of Romantic boundaries by illuminating the elasticity and multiplicity of their meanings. For those who are interested, please submit 500-word abstracts with 5 keywords. Abstracts are due by 10 October 2023. The result will be announced by mid-November.

Essays (5000–8000 words, including footnotes) that grow out of accepted abstracts will undergo peer review and are due by 31 January 2024.

Please email submissions to Yu-hung Tien (yuhung.tien@ed.ac.uk), with a subject line (Romantic Boundaries, ‘Paper Title’, Author Name).

Papers will be published in a special issue of Romantic Textualities (Summer 2024), guest edited by Professor Li-hsin Hsu, Professor Andrew Taylor, and Yu-hung Tien.

Please note that the essay submission date and publication schedule are tentative and subject to change, depending on the reviewing progress.

CFP In Other Wor(l)ds: Romanticism at the Crossroads, a special issue of Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840 (9/15/2023)

In Other Wor(l)ds: Romanticism at the Crossroads, a special issue of Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840

deadline for submissions:
September 15, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Romantic Textualities

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/08/25/in-other-worlds-romanticism-at-the-crossroads-a-special-issue-of-romantic

contact email:
CStampone@SMU.edu

In Other Wor(l)ds: Romanticism at the Crossroads, a special issue of Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840­

Note: The deadline for submissions has been extended to 9/15/23.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Altre Parole / In Other Words (2015) describes switching from one language to another as crossing from one side of a body of water to its opposite shore. Inspired by this metaphor, this special issue invites essays that examine Romanticism’s movements across oceans and seas, as well as languages, genres, and genders. This special issue seeks to reevaluate popular conceptions of Romantic aesthetics, recover authors who continue or call into question Romanticism’s continued salience, detail the circulation of texts across oceans and borders, and strike connections between authors of different countries and cultures. Joselyn Almeida, Manu Chander, Bakary Diaby, Tim Fulford, Paul Giles, Evan Gottlieb, Samantha Harvey, Nikki Hessell, Kevin Hutchings, Peter Kitson, Deanna Koretsky, Tricia Matthew, Omar Miranda, César Soto, Helen Thomas, The Bigger 6 Collective, and others have reassessed traditional conceptions of Romanticism(s) and Romantic figures by challenging hitherto limited aesthetic, cultural, and geographical borders. Rather than view Romanticism primarily as an insulated phenomenon born out of a few European countries—as has generally been the case—this edition seeks to offer transatlantic, transpacific, and even transnational Romanticisms. Taken as a whole, this special issue will stretch the bounds and time period of Romanticism, better reflecting the development of Romantic aesthetics and their manifestations and subversions across the globe.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Revisionary analyses that account for a global framework and decolonise texts, authors, and Romanticism as a field of study;
• Romantic networks connecting authors and ideas across space and time;
• Critical race theory and non-binary & genderqueer readings of underrepresented and canonical texts, art, music, performances, and oral traditions;
• BIPOC and LGBTQIA2S+ authors and artists;
• History of the book and transnational reception histories of underrepresented as well as canonical works of literature, specifically works that reached different parts of the globe by either book, newspaper, broadsides, handbills, and other print ephemera; and
• Comparative analyses connecting authors using similar forms (e.g., ballad romance), genre (e.g., Gothic), or allusions (e.g., Paradise Lost) across nations and languages.

Successful proposals will suggest articles that enrich our understanding of Romanticism by expanding its literal and metaphorical borders. Abstracts are due by August 15, 2023 and should be no longer than 600 words in length. Essays that grow out of accepted abstracts will undergo peer review and are due by January 31, 2024. Please email submissions to Christopher Stampone (CStampone@SMU.edu). Papers will be published in a special issue of Romantic Textualities(Winter 2024), guest edited by Christopher Stampone and Joel Pace.



Note: The deadline for submissions has been extended to 9/15/23.



Last updated September 1, 2023

Bain on ‘Frankenbitch[es]’: Adapting Frankenstein’s Female Monster in Literature and Film

Sorry to have missed this earlier. New scholarship on female Frankenstein monsters:



Bain, Gracie. “ ‘Frankenbitch[es]’: Adapting Frankenstein’s Female Monster in Literature and Film.” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 50, no. 4, Fall 2022, https://lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/50_4/frankenbitches_adapting_frankensteins_female_monster_in_literature_and_film.html.

Out Now - New Edition of The Frankenstein Legend

First published in 1973, The Frankenstein Legend: A Tribute to Mary Shelley and Boris Karloff, written by Donald F. Glut, has recently been re-issued in a second edition (published by Strange Particle Press in 2022). The work covers Shelley's novel and its adaptation on stage and screen (both film and television), for radio, in fiction, and as comics. 

Comprising over 400 pages, much of the content is repeated from the original edition, but Glur has included new and/or updated images to accompany the text. In addition, Glut adds a new illustrated afterword that provides updates to various sections of the text. 

I couldn't find a direct link for Strange Particle Press, but the book can be purchased from various online booksellers as print-on-demand and electronic versions.