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).

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Frankenstein Editions: 1818 in Oxford World's Classics Series

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text
By Mary Shelley
Edited with an introduction by Marilyn Butler
Oxford World's Classics
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/frankenstein-or-the-modern-prometheus-9780199537150?lang=en&cc=us#

Paperback ($8.95)
Published: 01 May 2009
328 Pages
ISBN: 9780199537150


Key features
  • Based on the harder and wittier 1818 version of the text. 
  • Draws on new research and examines the novel in the context of the controversial radical sciences developing in the years following the Napoleonic Wars. 
  • Shows the relationship of Frankenstein's experiment to the contemporary debate between champions of materialistic science and proponents of received religion.
 
Description 
 
Shelley's enduringly popular and rich gothic tale, Frankenstein, confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism and science--topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and humankind's ability to act as creator of the modern world. This new edition, based on the harder and wittier 1818 version of the text, draws on new research and examines the novel in the context of the controversial radical sciences developing in the years following the Napoleonic Wars. In addition it shows the relationship of Frankenstein's experiment to the contemporary debate between champions of materialistic science and proponents of received religion.



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