Frankenstein 200:The Birth, Life, and Resurrection of Mary Shelley's Monster
Rebecca Baumann, foreword by Jonathan Kearns
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=809318
(also available on JSTOR at http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt22p7j32)
Indiana University Press
Distribution: World
Publication date: 04/25/2018
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-253-03905-7
Paperback: $25.00
Other formats available:ebook $24.99
Two centuries ago, a teenage genius created a monster that still walks among us. In 1818, Mary Shelley published Frankenstein,
and in doing so set forth into the world a scientist and his monster.
The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, famed women’s rights advocate, and
William Godwin, radical political thinker and writer, Mary Shelley is
considered the mother of the modern genres of horror and science
fiction. At its core, however, Shelley’s Frankenstein is a
contemplation on what it means to be human, what it means to chase
perfection, and what it means to fear things suchsuch things as
ugliness, loneliness, and rejection.
In celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, the Lilly Library at Indiana University presents Frankenstein 200: The Birth, Life, and Resurrection of Mary Shelley’s Monster. This beautifully illustrated catalog looks closely at Mary Shelley’s life and influences, examines the hundreds of reincarnations her book and its characters have enjoyed, and highlights the vast, deep, and eclectic collections of the Lilly Library. This exhibition catalog is a celebration of books, of the monstrousness that exists within us all, and of the genius of Mary Shelley.
Contents:
Foreword: Cavendish’s Daughters: Speculative Fiction and Women’s History by Jonathan Kearns
Stitched and Bound by Love and Fear: Books, Monsters, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Rebecca Baumann
Case 1: Mary Shelley and the Birth of Frankenstein
Case 2: Mary and Percy
Case 3: Mary Beyond Frankenstein
Case 4: Mary’s Father, William Godwin
Case 5: Mary’s Mother, Mary Wollstonecraft
Case 6: Mad Science
Case 7: The Gothic
Case 8: The Monster’s Books
Case 9: Victor Frankenstein’s Books
Case 10: Frankenstein in Popular Culture (includes comics)
Case 11: The Undead
Case 12: Artificial Life
Case 13: Adapting Frankenstein
Case 14: Illustrating Frankenstein
Case 15: Outsiders and Others
Case 16: More Monsters
Case 17 and Case 18: Weird Women
Bibliography
Author Bio:
Rebecca Baumann is Head of Public Services at the Lilly Library of Indiana University and adjunct faculty with the Department of Information and Library Science. Baumann is obsessively passionate about sharing the library’s eclectic and wide-ranging collections with visitors of all sorts. Her research interests center on the history of the book, with special emphasis on 19th- and 20th-century British and American science fiction, horror, crime, and pulp. She considers herself a defender of weird books and a friend to all monsters.
In celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, the Lilly Library at Indiana University presents Frankenstein 200: The Birth, Life, and Resurrection of Mary Shelley’s Monster. This beautifully illustrated catalog looks closely at Mary Shelley’s life and influences, examines the hundreds of reincarnations her book and its characters have enjoyed, and highlights the vast, deep, and eclectic collections of the Lilly Library. This exhibition catalog is a celebration of books, of the monstrousness that exists within us all, and of the genius of Mary Shelley.
Contents:
Foreword: Cavendish’s Daughters: Speculative Fiction and Women’s History by Jonathan Kearns
Stitched and Bound by Love and Fear: Books, Monsters, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Rebecca Baumann
Case 1: Mary Shelley and the Birth of Frankenstein
Case 2: Mary and Percy
Case 3: Mary Beyond Frankenstein
Case 4: Mary’s Father, William Godwin
Case 5: Mary’s Mother, Mary Wollstonecraft
Case 6: Mad Science
Case 7: The Gothic
Case 8: The Monster’s Books
Case 9: Victor Frankenstein’s Books
Case 10: Frankenstein in Popular Culture (includes comics)
Case 11: The Undead
Case 12: Artificial Life
Case 13: Adapting Frankenstein
Case 14: Illustrating Frankenstein
Case 15: Outsiders and Others
Case 16: More Monsters
Case 17 and Case 18: Weird Women
Bibliography
Author Bio:
Rebecca Baumann is Head of Public Services at the Lilly Library of Indiana University and adjunct faculty with the Department of Information and Library Science. Baumann is obsessively passionate about sharing the library’s eclectic and wide-ranging collections with visitors of all sorts. Her research interests center on the history of the book, with special emphasis on 19th- and 20th-century British and American science fiction, horror, crime, and pulp. She considers herself a defender of weird books and a friend to all monsters.
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