Advance Notice: Global Frankenstein

Forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan. It sounds promising, but I wish they would also offer affordable paperback editions. I will update the blog once a contents list and cover art are posted:


Global Frankenstein 
Editors: Davison, Carol Margaret, Mulvey-Roberts, Marie (Eds.)
https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319781419

Hardcover ca. $109.00
price for USA

Due: November 11, 2018
ISBN 978-3-319-78141-9


Bibliographic Information

Series Title: Studies in Global Science Fiction
Copyright2018
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN 978-3-319-78142-6; Hardcover ISBN978-3-319-78141-9
Number of Illustrations and Tables 30 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature


Explores the versatility and interdisciplinary applications of Frankenstein in areas such as science, alchemy, hypertext, dance, art, post-humanism, computer games, and Victorian steampunk
Provides a global perspective with international authors and multi-national examples
Engages with the afterlife of Frankenstein and gives fresh prominence in the bicentennial year of its publication

Comprised of sixteen original essays by experts in the field, including leading and lesser-known international scholars, Global Frankenstein considers the tremendous adaptability and rich afterlives of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, Frankenstein, at its bicentenary, in such fields and disciplines as digital technology, film, theatre, dance, medicine, book illustration, science fiction, comic books, science, and performance art. This ground-breaking, celebratory volume, edited by two established Gothic Studies scholars, reassesses Frankenstein’s global impact for the twenty-first century across a myriad of cultures and nations, from Japan, Mexico, and Turkey, to Britain, Iraq, Europe, and North America. Offering compelling critical dissections of reincarnations of Frankenstein, a generically hybrid novel described by its early reviewers as a “bold,” “bizarre,” and “impious” production by a writer “with no common powers of mind”, this collection interrogates its sustained relevance over two centuries during which it has engaged with such issues as mortality, global capitalism, gender, race, embodiment, neoliberalism, disability, technology, and the role of science.


About the Editors:

Carol Margaret Davison is Professor at the University of Windsor, Canada and the author of History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature, 1764-1824 (2009) and Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). She recently edited The Gothic and Death (2017) and The Edinburgh Companion to the Scottish Gothic (2017) with Monica Germanà.

Marie Mulvey-Roberts is Professor of English Literature at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK and author of Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal (2016), winner of the Alan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. She has authored, edited, and co-edited over 30 books. Recently she made a film on Frankenstein for a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on the literary South West.