Celebrating in 2026: the 105th anniversary of the lost film Il Mostro di Frankenstein (1921); the 95th anniversary of Universal Studios’ Frankenstein (1931); the 60th anniversary of Dell Comics’ superhero version of Frankenstein (1966), Hanna Barbera’s television hero Frankenstein Jr, co-star of the series Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles (1966), and the films Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966) and The War of the Gargantuas (1966); the 55th anniversary of General Mills’ cereal mascot Franken Berry (1971); the 50th anniversary of the Saturday-morning television series Monster Squad (1976); the 45th anniversary of the anime film Kyofu Densetsu: Kaiki! Furankenshutain (1981); the 40th anniversary of Ken Russell’s film Gothic (1986) and Fred Saberhagen’s novel The Frankenstein Papers (1986); the 25th anniversary of Curtis Jobling’s picture book Frankenstein's Cat (2001); the 20th anniversary of Grant Morrision’s comic book series Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein (2006); the 15th anniversary of Nick Dear’s play Frankenstein (2011); the 10th anniversary of the Royal Ballet's production of Frankenstein (2016); and the release of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s film Bride! (2026).

Saturday, June 24, 2017

CFP Transnational Romanticism (11/15/2017)

Transnational Romanticism
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/06/20/transnational-romanticism

deadline for submissions:

November 15, 2017


full name / name of organization:
Dr. Agnieszka Gutthy

contact email:
agutthy@southeastern.edu


Papers are invited for a volume on Transnational Romanticism. The possible topics may include, but are not limited to

- exile and displacement

- literary responses to various historical or cultural moments of transition or crisis

- translation as a movement of texts across cultural and national boundaries

- Goethe’s concept of Weltliteratur and its modern reinterpretations

- Romantic philosophy and nationalism

- Romantic imagination and the modern world

- social protest in Romantic drama and realist fiction

- Romanticism and popular culture

- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the genre of science fiction


Please send 6000 – 7000-word paper to agutthy@southeastern.edu by November 15, 2017


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