Frankenstein Editions: 1831 Edition in Oxford World's Classics

Continuing to get information on all standard editions of Frankenstein into the blog. Here is the first of two from Oxford University Press.

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
By Mary Shelley
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by the late M. K. Joseph
Oxford World's Classics

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/frankenstein-9780199537167?cc=us&lang=en&#


Paperback ($7.95)
Published: 15 October 2008

264 Pages
6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches
ISBN: 9780199537167

Also Available As: Ebook


Shelley's suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literature--the power of human imagination, the potential hubris of science, the gulf between appearance and essence, the effects of human cruelty, the desire for revenge and the need for forgiveness, and much more.

Frankenstein at the Huntington

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, includes the following event on its calendar (http://www.huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/content.aspx?id=11160) for 2018. Further details will be posted as they become available.

May 11-12, 2018
Frankenstein Then and Now, 1818-2018
Conveners: Jerrold Hogle (University of Arizona) and Anne Mellor (UCLA)

Fisch's Frankenstein: Icon of Modern Culture

The looks comparable to Hitchcock's book in term of offering a comprehensive history of the Frankenstein tradition, but the sections are broken into smaller units and (I think) it has more illustrations. Sadly, it appears out of print. 

Frankenstein: Icon of Modern Culture
http://www.helm-information.co.uk/frankenstein.htm
Audrey A. Fisch
Series: Icons of Modern Culture

Helm Information



Books details:

978-1-903206-20-1
320pp
55 illustrations
RRP £38
April 2009


Description:

This is the fifth book in the Icons of Modern Culture series. Children and adults the world over know the lumbering, overlarge figure with the green face and bolts in his head. How did the Halloween staple known as "Frankenstein" emerge out of the anonymous novel by a "young girl," published in 1818 to mixed reviews? The answer, as this study makes clear, is that the "Frankenstein" we know today is not solely Mary Shelley’s progeny. "Frankenstein" morphed into many different forms over time, place, and genre. This volume displays and analyses the many post-Shelley "Frankensteins," exploring their continuities and disjunctions in order to trace the development of this enduring icon. The volume also traces the complex history of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, including its publishing history, its dismissal by the literary establishment, and its subsequent reclamation as a touchstone text in high school and college classrooms. Students of Shelley’s novel or of the many "Frankensteins" her novel propagated will find here an analysis of this intriguing cultural history. This volume also provides extensive extracts, gathering together an unprecedented collection of both never-before published and previously published material, so that readers can read widely and develop their own sense of "Frankenstein’s" place in our world.



Table of Contents:


List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Series Editor’s Preface


Introduction


Section 1 – Mary Shelley and the first "Frankensteins"

1. Publication

2. Frankenstein, Godwin, and Wollstonecraft

3. Reception

4. Early Science

5. The Nature of Man

6. Percy Shelley and Frankenstein

7. Mary Shelley and Frankenstein

8. Revision and Authorship


Section 2 – Beyond Mary Shelley

9. Early Theatre 1823–1826

10. Victorian Burlesque-Extravaganza

11. Other Victorian "Frankensteins"

12. Silent Film

13. Early Twentieth-Century Drama

14. Whale, Hammer, and Beyond

15. Feminist Canonisation

16. Critical Progeny

17. The Scientific Legacy of "Frankenstein"

18. Contemporary "Frankenstein"


Conclusion: Ubiquitous "Frankenstein"


Appendix: "The Death Bride" from Tales of the Dead


Bibliography


Index


About the author:

Audrey A. Fisch is Professor of English and Coordinator of Secondary English Education at New Jersey City University. She is the editor of The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein and The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative and the author of American Slaves in Victorian England: Abolitionist Politics in Popular Literature and Culture.

Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley

A great overview of Mary Shelley and her writings. It includes a number of pieces on Frankenstein and the Frankenstein tradition:

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/english-literature-1700-1830/cambridge-companion-mary-shelley
Part of Cambridge Companions to Literature
Editor: Esther Schor, Princeton University, New Jersey

Product details

Date Published: January 2004
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521007702
length: 316 pages
dimensions: 229 x 154 x 21 mm
weight: 0.52kg
contains: 14 b/w illus.

$ 30.99 (Paperback )
Other available formats:Hardback, eBook


Description

Well-known scholars review Mary Shelley's work in several contexts (literary history, aesthetic and literary culture, the legacies of her parents) and also analyze her most famous work-- Frankenstein. The contributors also examine Shelley as a biographer, cultural critic, and travel writer. The text is supplemented by a chronology, guide to further reading and select filmography.

• Covers a wide range of topics in a clear and comprehensive way
• The volume is well supported by a detailed chronology, bibliography and select filmography
• Offers treatments of film and popular culture in addition to literary and cultural criticism approaches

Table of Contents

Chronology

Introduction Esther Schor (online)

Part I. 'The Author of Frankenstein':
1. Making a 'monster': an introduction to Frankenstein Anne K. Mellor (online)
2. Frankenstein, Matilda, and the legacies of Godwin and Wollstonecraft Pamela Clemit
3. Frankenstein, feminism, and literary theory Diane Long Hoeveler
4. Frankenstein on Film Esther Schor
5. Frankenstein's futurity: from replicants to robotics Jay Clayton

Part II. Fictions and Myths:
6. Valperga Stuart Curran
7. The last man Kari E. Lokke
8. Historical novelist Deidre Lynch
9. Falkner and other fictions Kate Ferguson Ellis
10. Stories for the Keepsake Charlotte Sussman
11. Proserpine and Midas Judith Pascoe

Part III. Professional Personae:
12. Mary Shelley, editor Susan J. Wolfson
13. Letters: the public/private self Betty T. Bennett
14. Mary Shelley as biographer Greg Kucich
15. Mary Shelley's travel writing Jeanne Moskal
16. Mary Shelley as cultural critic Timothy Morton

Further reading

Selected filmography.

Must Read: Hitchcock's Frankenstein: A Cultural History

A masterful survey of the Frankenstein tradition:

Frankenstein:A Cultural History
By Susan Tyler Hitchcock
W. W. Norton
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-0-393-06144-4/

Book Details
Hardcover
October 2007
ISBN 978-0-393-06144-4
5.9 × 8.5 in / 400 pages

Sales Territory: Worldwide including Canada, but excluding the British Commonwealth.


Overview

A lively history of the Frankenstein myth, tracing its evolution from a Romantic nightmare to its prominence in today's imaginative landscape.

Frankenstein began as the nightmare of an unwed teenage mother in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1816. At a time when the moral universe was shifting and advances in scientific knowledge promised humans dominion over that which had been God's alone, Mary Shelley envisioned a story of human presumption and its misbegotten consequences. Two centuries later, that story is still constantly retold and reinterpreted, from Halloween cartoons to ominous allusions in the public debate, capturing and conveying meaning central to our consciousness today and our concerns for tomorrow. From Victorian musical theater to Boris Karloff with neck bolts, to invocations at the President's Council on Bioethics, the monster and his myth have inspired everyone from cultural critics to comic book addicts. This is a lively and eclectic cultural history, illuminated with dozens of pictures and illustrations, and told with skill and humor. Susan Tyler Hitchcock uses film, literature, history, science, and even punk music to help us understand the meaning of this monster made by man.


Contents (from WorldCat)

Conception --
Birth and lineage --
Reception and revision --
The monster lives on --
Making more monsters --
A monster for modern times --
A brave new world of monsters --
The horror and the humor --
Monsters in the living room --
Taking the monster seriously --
The monster and his myth today.

Blog Updates 7/11

I added an about Frankenstein gadget to the blog yesterday. It includes links to Wikipedia pieces on the novel, its author(s), and its afterlife. There are also links to significant characters, but do also see the section on comics for more examples.

On a related note, if there are any Wikipedia-style pages  devoted to other characters and franchises, please send me the details at frankensteinandthefantastic@gmail.com.

Michael Torregrossa,
Area Chair/Blog Editor

Blog Update 7/10

I spent part of the day updating the comics listings in preparation for some future projects on the medium. Do send any further suggestions for links to me at frankensteinandthefantastic@gmail.com.

Michael Torregrossa
Area Chair/Blog Editor

Frankenstein (3rd Edition) from Bedford/St Martin's

Frankenstein (Case Study in Contemporary Criticism)
Third Edition ©2016
http://www.macmillanlearning.com/Catalog/product/frankenstein-thirdedition-shelley#tab

By Mary Shelley , edited by Johanna M. Smith (University of Texas at Arlington)

ISBN-10: 0-312-46318-9; ISBN-13: 978-0-312-46318-2; Format: Paper Text, 608 pages

A long-awaited revision of the bestselling Case Study in Contemporary Criticism: Frankenstein

Revised to reflect critical trends of the past 15 years, the third iteration of this widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text of Mary Shelley’s English Romantic novel along with critical essays that introduce students to Frankenstein from contemporary psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, gender/queer, postcolonial, and cultural studies perspectives. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents, introductions (with bibliographies), and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.

In the third edition, three of the six essays are new, representing recent gender/queer, postcolonial, and cultural theories. The contextual documents have been significantly revised to include many images of Frankenstein from contemporary popular culture.


Features:

• An authoritative text of Frankenstein (1831)
• Exemplary essays about Frankenstein representing contemporary critical approaches
• A rich selection of cultural contextual documents
• Highly praised editorial matter, including biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary

New to this edition:

• Three new critical essays representing recent gender/queer, postcolonial, and cultural theories
• Expanded collection of contextual documents and illustrations, including images of Frankenstein from contemporary popular culture
• Updated editorial apparatus

Contents:

Part One Frankenstein: The Complete Text in Cultural Context

Biographical and Historical Contexts

The Complete Text

Part Two Frankenstein in Cultural Context

Part Three Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism

A Critical History of Frankenstein

Psychoanalytic Criticism and Frankenstein
David Collings, “The Monster and the Maternal Thing: Mary Shelley’s Critique of Ideology”

Feminist Criticism and Frankenstein
Johanna M. Smith, “’Cooped Up” with “Sad Trash”: Domesticity and the Sciences in Frankenstein”

Marxist Criticism and Frankenstein
Warren Montag, “’The Workshop of Filthy Creation’: A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein”

Gender Criticism/Queer Theory and Frankenstein
New Grant F. Scott, “Victor’s Secret: Queer Gothic in Lynd Ward’s Illustrations to Frankenstein (1934)”

Cultural Criticism and Frankenstein
New Siobhan Carroll, “Crusades Against Frost: Frankenstein, Polar Ice, and Climate Change in 1818”

Postcolonial Criticism and Frankenstein
New Allan Lloyd Smith, “’This Thing of Darkness’: Racial Discourse in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”

Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms



About the editor:

Johanna M. Smith is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she teaches drama, law and literature, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature. She has published numerous articles in the latter fields, as well as a Twayne guide to Mary Shelley and a coedited anthology of eighteenth-century British women's life writings. Her current research focus is British women in the public sphere from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century.

Frankenstein from MIT Press

Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/frankenstein

By Mary Shelley
Edited by David H. Guston, Ed Finn and Jason Scott Robert
Introduction by Charles E. Robinson


Paperback | $19.95 Trade | £14.95 | 320 pp. | 6.5 x 9 in | May 2017 | ISBN: 9780262533287

eBook | $19.95 Trade | April 2017 | ISBN: 9780262340250

Overview

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author during a cold and rainy summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, the dramatic tale of Victor Frankenstein and his stitched-together creature can be read as the ultimate parable of scientific hubris. Victor, “the modern Prometheus,” tried to do what he perhaps should have left to Nature: create life. Although the novel is most often discussed in literary-historical terms—as a seminal example of romanticism or as a groundbreaking early work of science fiction—Mary Shelley was keenly aware of contemporary scientific developments and incorporated them into her story. In our era of synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and climate engineering, this edition of Frankenstein will resonate forcefully for readers with a background or interest in science and engineering, and anyone intrigued by the fundamental questions of creativity and responsibility.

This edition of Frankenstein pairs the original 1818 version of the manuscript—meticulously line-edited and amended by Charles E. Robinson, one of the world’s preeminent authorities on the text—with annotations and essays by leading scholars exploring the social and ethical aspects of scientific creativity raised by this remarkable story. The result is a unique and accessible edition of one of the most thought-provoking and influential novels ever written.

Essays by
Elizabeth Bear, Cory Doctorow, Heather E. Douglas, Josephine Johnston, Kate MacCord, Jane Maienschein, Anne K. Mellor, Alfred Nordmann


CONTENTS (contents listing derived from JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1pk3jfp)


     Front Matter
    (pp. i-vi)

    Table of Contents
    (pp. vii-ix)
   
 
    EDITORS’ PREFACE
    (pp. x-xix)
    DAVID H. GUSTON, ED FINN and JASON SCOTT ROBERT
   
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    (pp. xx-xxi)
   
    INTRODUCTION
    (pp. xxii-xxxvi)
    CHARLES E. ROBINSON

 
    FRANKENSTEIN OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS

        VOLUME I
        (pp. xxxviii-69)

        VOLUME II
        (pp. 70-125)

        VOLUME III
        (pp. 126-188)

         INTRODUCTION TO FRANKENSTEIN (1831)
        (pp. 189-194)

        CHRONOLOGY OF SCIENCE AND MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
        (pp. 195-198)
 
    ESSAYS

        TRAUMATIC RESPONSIBILITY: VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN AS CREATOR AND CASUALTY
        (pp. 201-208)
        JOSEPHINE JOHNSTON

        I’VE CREATED A MONSTER! (AND SO CAN YOU)
        (pp. 209-214)
        CORY DOCTOROW

        CHANGING CONCEPTIONS OF HUMAN NATURE
        (pp. 215-222)
        JANE MAIENSCHEIN and KATE MACCORD

        UNDISTURBED BY REALITY: VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN’S TECHNOSCIENTIFIC DREAM OF REASON
        (pp. 223-230)
        ALFRED NORDMANN

        FRANKENSTEIN REFRAMED; OR, THE TROUBLE WITH PROMETHEUS
        (pp. 231-238)
        ELIZABETH BEAR

        FRANKENSTEIN, GENDER, AND MOTHER NATURE
        (pp. 239-246)
        ANNE K. MELLOR

        THE BITTER AFTERTASTE OF TECHNICAL SWEETNESS
        (pp. 247-252)
        HEATHER E. DOUGLAS


    APPENDIXES

        REFERENCES
        (pp. 255-260)
  
        FURTHER READING
        (pp. 261-262)
    
        DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
        (pp. 263-274)
 
        CONTRIBUTORS
        (pp. 275-281)
    
    Back Matter
    (pp. 282-282)
    

About the Editors

David Guston is Professor and Founding Director of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University, where he also serves as Codirector of the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes..

Ed Finn is Founding Director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, where he is also Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering and the Department of English.

Jason Scott Robert is Lincoln Chair in Ethics, Associate Professor in the School of Life Sciences, and Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University.

Klinger's The New Annotated Frankenstein due August 2017

The New Annotated Frankenstein
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-0-87140-949-2/

Mary Shelley (Author), Leslie S. Klinger (Editor)

With an Introduction by Guillermo del Toro, With an Afterword by Anne K. Mellor

A Liveright book

Book Details

Retail Price: $35.00
Hardcover
Forthcoming August 2017
ISBN 978-0-87140-949-2
8.9 × 10.3 in / 432 pages
Sales Territory: Worldwide



Two centuries after its original publication, Mary Shelley’s classic tale of gothic horror comes to vivid life in "what may very well be the best presentation of the novel" to date (Guillermo del Toro).

"Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge," writes best-selling author Leslie S. Klinger in his foreword to The New Annotated Frankenstein. Despite its undeniable status as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written, Mary Shelley’s novel is often reductively dismissed as the wellspring for tacky monster films or as a cautionary tale about experimental science gone haywire. Now, two centuries after the first publication of Frankenstein, Klinger revives Shelley’s gothic masterpiece by reproducing her original text with the most lavishly illustrated and comprehensively annotated edition to date.

Featuring over 200 illustrations and nearly 1,000 annotations, this sumptuous volume recaptures Shelley’s early nineteenth-century world with historical precision and imaginative breadth, tracing the social and political roots of the author’s revolutionary brand of Romanticism. Braiding together decades of scholarship with his own keen insights, Klinger recounts Frankenstein’s indelible contributions to the realms of science fiction, feminist theory, and modern intellectual history—not to mention film history and popular culture. The result of Klinger’s exhaustive research is a multifaceted portrait of one of Western literature’s most divinely gifted prodigies, a young novelist who defied her era’s restrictions on female ambitions by independently supporting herself and her children as a writer and editor.

Born in a world of men in the midst of a political and an emerging industrial revolution, Shelley crafted a horror story that, beyond its incisive commentary on her own milieu, is widely recognized as the first work of science fiction. The daughter of a pioneering feminist and an Enlightenment philosopher, Shelley lived and wrote at the center of British Romanticism, the “exuberant, young movement” that rebelled against tradition and reason and "with a rebellious scream gave birth to a world of gods and monsters" (del Toro).

Following his best-selling The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft and The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Klinger not only considers Shelley’s original 1818 text but, for the first time in any annotated volume, traces the effects of her significant revisions in the 1823 and 1831 editions. With an afterword by renowned literary scholar Anne K. Mellor, The New Annotated Frankenstein celebrates the prescient genius and undying legacy of the world’s "first truly modern myth."

The New Annotated Frankenstein includes:

• Nearly 1,000 notes that provide information and historical context on every aspect of Frankenstein and of Mary Shelley’s life
• Over 200 illustrations, including original artwork from the 1831 edition and dozens of photographs of real-world locations that appear in the novel
• Extensive listings of films and theatrical adaptations
• An introduction by Guillermo del Toro and an afterword by Anne K. Mellor

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text from Penguin Classics in 2018

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text 
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/557081/frankenstein-the-1818-text-by-mary-shelley/9780143131847

By Mary Shelley
Introduction by Charlotte Gordon

Paperback Jan 16, 2018
288 Pages


About Frankenstein: The 1818 Text 

For the bicentennial of its first publication, Mary Shelley’s original 1818 text, introduced by National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon.

2018 marks the bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s seminal novel. For the first time, Penguin Classics will publish the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically-charged aspects of Shelley’s original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also emphasizes Shelley’s relationship with her mother—trailblazing feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who penned A Vindication of the Rights of Woman—and demonstrates her commitment to carrying forward her mother’s ideals, placing her in the context of a feminist legacy rather than the sole female in the company of male poets, including Percy Shelley and Lord Byron.

This edition includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by National Book Critics Circle award-winner and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon, and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson.

Frankenstein in Baghdad due out in January 2017

Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel
By Ahmed Saadawi
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/529924/frankenstein-in-baghdad-by-ahmed-saadawi/9780143128793

Product Details

Paperback
$16.00
Published by Penguin Books
Jan 23, 2018
288 Pages
5-1/16 x 7-3/4
ISBN 9780143128793


About Frankenstein in Baghdad

From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi—a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local café—collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them proper burial. But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who, though shot, cannot be killed. Hadi soon realizes he’s created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive—first from the guilty, and then from anyone in its path. An extraordinary achievement, at once horrific and blackly humorous, Frankenstein in Baghdad captures the surreal reality of contemporary Baghdad.


About Ahmed Saadawi

Ahmed Saadawi is an Iraqi novelist, poet, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. He is the first Iraqi to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, which he won in 2014 for Frankenstein in Baghdad.

Notice of Women & Science Fiction Media (Spec Issue of Science Fiction Film and Television) due in 2018

Call has expired, but it is something to be on the lookout for (the journal's website is http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/loi/sfftv):

Science Fiction Film and Television is seeking articles for a special issue on Women & Science Fiction Media, intended to mark the 200th year anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Although sf was once stereotyped as a male genre, more recently women’s contributions as authors, fans, editors, and more have become more widely acknowledged. Central to this new understanding of women’s contributions to sf has been the realization that women have always been a part of the genre, resisting another stereotype that links women’s emergence in the field to the feminist fiction of the 1960s and 1970s. In recognition of the bicentenary of the publication of Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley, arguably the first sf novel, we seek essays that recognize, interrogate, respond to and celebrate women’s contributions to media sf. We are interested in reviewing any work that explores this topic, but we are particularly interested in contributions on the following topics:

• Female directors of sf film and television
• Female sf showrunners
• Female scriptwriters in sf
• Gender and Mary Shelley’s legacy in sf’s imagination of created beings
• Frankenstein remakes, adaptations, reboots and reinventions
• Gender and casting, and character arc in media sf
• Gender in sf fandom and criticism

Articles should be 7000 to 9000 words in length, including footnotes and bibliography. Submissions (in word or rtf, following MLA style) should be made via our website at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lup-sfftv.

Any queries should be directed to the editors, Mark Bould (mark.bould@gmail.com), Gerry Canavan (gerrycanavan@gmail.com) and Sherryl Vint (sherryl.vint@gmail.com).

The deadline for submissions for this special issue is March 15, 2017.

CFP In Frankenstein's Wake (Spec. Issue of Foundation) (1/29/2018)

My thanks to the IAFA cfp list for the heads up on this:


Call for Papers: In Frankenstein's Wake

Mon, 15/05/2017 - 00:23 — PaulMR

http://www.sf-foundation.org/node/233

 

To mark the 200th anniversary, in 2018, of Mary Shelley’s novel, we invite articles for a special issue, examining the impact of Shelley’s creation on the development of sf. Following Brian Aldiss’ critical intervention in Billion Year Spree (1973), this is a relationship that has often been explored, so we would like to encourage contributions that investigate the afterlives of Shelley’s novel within the sf genre in new and innovative ways. Topics may include (but are not confined to) the following areas:

• Critical and historiographical reassessments of the relationship between Frankenstein and sf
• Re-workings/rewritings of the Frankenstein myth within contemporary sf
• Performing Frankenstein on screen, stage and in music
• The Frankenstein legend and contemporary portrayals of scientists
• The Frankenstein myth and the popular communication of science
• Adapting the Frankenstein story to new media – graphic novels, videogames, etc.
• New and contemporary theoretical approaches to the Frankenstein myth
• Mary Shelley and her creation in contemporary women’s sf

Articles should be approximately 6000 words long and written in accordance with the style sheet available at the SF Foundation website. The deadline for entries is Monday, 29th January 2018. Entries should be submitted to journaleditor@sf-foundation.org

CFP Creature Re-Feature: Frankenstein at 2000 (NeMLA 2018 Panel) (abstracts by 9/30/2017)

Creature Re-Feature: Frankenstein at 2000 (Panel)

The 49th NeMLA Annual Convention
April 12-15, 2018 Pittsburgh, PA

Primary Area / Secondary Area

Cultural Studies and Media Studies / Anglophone

Chair(s)

Rikk Mulligan (Carnegie Mellon University)
Submissions to: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16974

Abstract

In Frankenstein: A Cultural History (2007), Susan Tyler Hitchcock argues that the central myth of Mary Shelley’s novel is one of “claiming long-forbidden knowledge and facing the consequences” (4). Frankenstein’s creation has become a metaphor for hubris, overreach, and discovery divorced from humanity; it is also an argument for ethical creation. Over the past two hundred years as science and technology have evolved, this metaphor has been applied to atomic weapons and power, cloning, genetic modification, and artificial intelligence among other pursuits. The novel has been adapted for stage, screen, graphic novels, and even video games, using new settings and often reimagining and adding characters, yet leaving others relatively untouched.

This session seeks papers that explore the ways in which the iconic figures of Victor Frankenstein and his creation have been transformed in the early 21st century.
Papers might explore recent film, television or novels including but not limited to:

• Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein quadrilogy (2005-2010)
• Frankenstein (BBC, 2007)
• Peter Ackroyd’s The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (2008)
• The Frankenstein Theory (2013)
• I, Frankenstein (2014)
• Penny Dreadful (Showtime, 2014-2016)
• Victor Frankenstein (2015)
• The Frankenstein Chronicles (BBC TV, 2015)
• Second Chance (Fox, 2016)
• Doc Frankenstein (comic series, Burlyman Entertainment, 6 issues, 2004-2016)
• Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. (DC Comics, 17 issues, 2011-2013)

Description

2018 is the bicentennial of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. This session will explore how the iconic figures of Victor Frankenstein and his creation have been transformed in the early 21st century. Any source including comics books, television and cable series, films, and novels may be considered so long as they were released in or after 2000.

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


Last updated June 22, 2017

CFP Technologies of Frankenstein Conference (2 of 2)

Announcement and Call for Papers: “Technologies of Frankenstein”, 7 - 9 March 2018, Hoboken, NJ
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/181237/announcement-and-call-papers-%E2%80%9Ctechnologies-frankenstein%E2%80%9D-7-9
 
Announcement published by Michael Geselowitz on Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Type: Call for Papers
Date: October 15, 2017
Location: New Jersey, United States




Announcement and Call for Papers: “Technologies of Frankenstein”

Sponsor and Host: Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA

Meeting Dates: 7 – 9 March 2018

CFP Deadline: 15 October 2017

Website: http://frankenstein2018.org/



Summary:

The 200th anniversary year of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus has drawn worldwide interest in revisiting the novel’s themes. What were those themes and what is their value to us in the early twenty-first century?

Mary Shelley was rather vague as to how Victor, a young medical student, managed to reanimate a person cobbled together from parts of corpses. Partly as a result of this technical gap, and partly as a result of many other features of the novel, Frankenstein continues to inspire discourse in scholarly, popular, and creative culture about the Monstrous, the Outsider, the Other, and scientific ethics. This conference will examine such connections in our thinking about humanism and techno-science from the novel’s publication to the present. We construe broadly the intersecting themes of humanism, technology, and science and we welcome proposals from all fields of study for presentations that add a twenty-first century perspective to Frankenstein. Topic areas may include but are not limited to:

• Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
• Branding “Frankenstein” (Food, Comics, Gaming, Music, Theater, Film)
• Computational and Naval Technology (Mapping, Navigation, The Idea of the Journey)
• Digital Humanities and GeoHumanities (Applications, Pedagogy, Library/Information Technology)
• Engineering Technologies: Past/Present/Future (Chemical, Electrical, Biomedical)
• Future Technologies and Labor Concerns

Submit abstracts of 300 words and brief CV by 15 October 2017 to Michael Geselowitz (mgeselowitz@ieee.org) and Robin Hammerman (rhammerm@stevens.edu).

Contact Info:

Michael N. Geselowitz, Ph.D., Senior Director
IEEE History Center at Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA
Contact Email:
m.geselowitz@ieee.org
URL:
http://frankenstein2018.org/

CFP Technologies of Frankenstein Conference (1 of 2)

Technologies of Frankenstein: 1818-2018 (7-9 March 2018, Stevens Institute of Technology)
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/180688/technologies-frankenstein-1818-2018-7-9-march-2018-stevens

Announcement published by Robin Hammerman on Monday, May 22, 2017

Type: Call for Papers
Date: October 15, 2017
Location: New Jersey, United States

Call for Papers

Technologies of Frankenstein: 1818-2018

7-9 March 2018, Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey USA)

Co-sponsors: Stevens Institute of Technology and IEEE History Center

The 200th anniversary year of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus has drawn worldwide interest in revisiting the novel’s themes. What were those themes and what is their value to us in the early twenty-first century? Mary Shelley was rather vague as to how Victor, a young medical student, managed to reanimate a person cobbled together from parts of corpses. The imagination of the novel’s readership outfitted Victor’s laboratory with the chemical and electrical technologies that brought the creature to life. Subsequent theatrical and cinematic versions of Frankenstein have been, like the creature, patched together from the novel and from contemporary popular press as well as public demonstrations of medical, chemical, and electrical research. Mary Shelley’s contemporaries arguably exploited her novel to their own purposes, including George Canning (leader of the British House of Commons in 1824) who drew an analogy between the prospect of freeing West Indian slaves and Victor’s “monster” who is left in the world with no master to curtail his criminal instincts. Some of Mary Shelley’s biographers characterize the story of Victor Frankenstein’s reanimation experiment as a cautionary tale against techno-science run amok while others emphasize Victor’s irresponsible behavior toward his subject. In what ways might our tools of science and communication serve as an “elixir of life” since the age of Frankenstein? Topic areas include and are not limited to items on the list below. For more information about the conference and to register please visit http://frankenstein2018.org.

• Branding “Frankenstein” (Food, Comics, Gaming, Music, Theater, Film)
• Computational and Naval Technology (Mapping, Navigation, The Idea of the Journey)
• Digital Humanities and GeoHumanities (Applications, Pedagogy, Library/Information Technology)
• Engineering Technologies: Past/Present/Future (Chemical, Electrical, Biomedical)
• Future Technologies and Labor Concerns
• How might industrialized nations develop low-cost solutions to provide maternal and pediatric care in regions with limited medical facilities?
• How are our ideas of the “Monstrous” or “Other” changing since the publication of Frankenstein?
• Is the pharmaceutical industry using human consumers as experiments for profit?
• What ethical and legal issues will emerge in the age of advanced or “aware” artificial intelligence?
• What does it mean to be human?
• What is the responsibility of government in world-wide health care?
• Who is responsible for the outcomes of techno-science?
• Who should have access to advanced human enhancement technologies and why?

Submit inquires and/or abstracts of 300 words with brief cv by 15 October 2017 to Michael Geselowitz (m.geselowitz@ieee.org) and Robin Hammerman (rhammerm@stevens.edu).

We are dedicated to a harassment-free conference experience for everyone.


Contact Info:

Michael Geselowitz (IEEE History Center) and Robin Hammerman (Stevens Institute of Technology, College of Arts and Letters)
Contact Email:
rhammerm@stevens.edu
URL:
http://frankenstein2018.org

Advance Notice ICFA 2018

I was excited to come across this recently:

200 Years of the Fantastic: Celebrating Frankenstein and Mary Shelley
The 39th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

March 14-18, 2018
Orlando Airport Marriott Lakeside, Orlando, Florida

Guests of Honor: John Kessel and Nike Sulway
Guest Scholar: Fred Botting
Special Guest Emeritus: Brian Aldiss

CFP Science Fiction Studies on Frankenstein at 200

Been meaning to post this for a while:

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at 200 (Science Fiction Studies, Special Issue)

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/03/06/mary-shelleys-frankenstein-at-200-science-fiction-studies-special-issue

 

deadline for submissions: 

August 1, 2017

full name / name of organization: 

Nicole Lobdell and Michael Griffin

contact email: 

nicolelobdell@depauw.edu

 

Science Fiction Studies is currently soliciting proposals for a July 2018 special issue celebrating the bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), a work that forever changed the genre of science fiction. In Frankenstein, Shelley experimented not only with subject matter, new scientific inventions and their many terrifying and horrific possibilities, but also narrative and form. Her use of multiple frame narratives, nested one within another, was a notable shift from the eighteenth-century novels she grew up reading, and her merging of popular culture’s fascination with science and the Gothic broadened the emerging genre of science fiction. Her refusal to provide a clear didactic lesson left readers to judge for themselves the actions of Victor Frankenstein, and the ending left the Creature’s fate unclear, the possibility of its survival forever impacting future readers and writers. Adaptations and appropriations of Shelley’s narrative and form have become staples of science fiction, and as such, Frankenstein holds a celebrated spot as a creative source that inspires subsequent science fiction.

Shelley’s novel did not always enjoy the critical acclaim and canonical status that it now holds. Nonetheless, Frankenstein continues to resonate and influence the definitions, forms, narratives, and media of contemporary science fiction and contemporary authorship. In what ways does Frankenstein’s influence transform how authors and readers understand the limits of science fiction? How do the genre-bending and metafictional components of Frankenstein influence definitions of science fiction? What does Frankenstein have to say about the current political climate and global issues such as citizenship, immigration, and war? These questions have inspired this call for papers, and the editors envision this special issue as a celebration of Mary Shelley, the legacy of Frankenstein, and the light it continues to cast on science fiction since its publication. Essays that explore the intersections of recent science fiction novels and critical approaches are particularly encouraged, as are essays that consider cross-media adaptations of Frankenstein or Frankenstein-inspired narratives. Other potential topics could include:

Adaptations (art, comics, theatre, videogames, etc.,)
Aesthetics
Animal Studies
Culture of 1818 & 2018 (citizenship, immigration, war)
Digital Humanities
Digital Media
Disability Studies
Feminisms
GeoHumanities
Globalization
Gothic
Immigration
Intertextuality
Medical Humanities
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Poetry
Popular Culture
Romanticism
Science and Technology (AI, robotics, etc.,)
Visual Culture

Please send proposals (300-500 words) by 1 Aug. 2017 to Michael Griffin (michael.griffin@lmc.gatech.edu) and Nicole Lobdell (nicolelobdell@depauw.edu). Completed papers (6000-8000 words) will be due by 1 Oct. 2017.

Last updated March 9, 2017