Readings on Frankenstein:
A thematic examination of Shelley's novel offers a biographical overview of the author, critical essays by varied experts, and a discussion of concurrent historical events.
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| Summary: | A thematic examination of Shelley's novel offers a biographical overview of the author, critical essays by varied experts, and a discussion of concurrent historical events. |
| Physical Description: | 160 S. |
| ISBN: | 0737701838 073770182X |
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| adam_text | .* V THE GREENHAVEN PRESS ^AXM/IXXJXK^K-XXAXVOXXMAXIXX/ V TO BRITISH
LITERATURE READINGS ON ^ DON NARDO, BOOK EDITOR DAVID L. BENDER,
PUBLISHER BRUNO LEONE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR BONNIE SZUMSKI, SERIES EDITOR
! / ; . * * * * * * * - -. GREENHAVEN PRESS, INC., SAN DIEGO, CA
CONTENTS FOREWORD 9 INTRODUCTION 11 MARY SHELLEY AND FRANKENSTEIN 14
CHAPTER 1: THE STORY, ITS CONCEPTION, AND THE SOURCES OF ITS IDEAS 1.
THE STORY OF FRANKENSTEIN BY LESLIE HALLIWELL 28 MARY SHELLEY S CLASSIC
TALE CONCERNS A MAN WHO MANAGES TO CREATE LIFE AND THE TERRIBLE PRICE HE
AND HIS CREATION PAY FOR THIS HUMAN MEDDLING IN NATURE S DOMAIN. LINES
FROM THE ORIGINAL NOVEL ENLIVEN THIS CRITICAL SUMMARY. 2. HOW THE AUTHOR
CONCEIVED THE BASIC PREMISE BY MARY SHELLEY 34 IN MARY SHELLEY S OWN
WORDS, SHE FIRST CONCEIVED THE FRIGHT- ENING IDEA OF A SCIENTIST
CREATING LIFE WHILE SHE VISITED A VILLA NEAR GENEVA, SWITZERLAND. THERE,
SHE SAYS, A FRIENDLY COMPE- TITION TO WRITE THE BEST GHOST STORY SPARKED
EERIE VISIONS OF FRANKENSTEIN S MONSTER, WHOM SHE SUBSEQUENTLY CAME,
SOMEWHAT AFFECTIONATELY, TO CALL HER HIDEOUS PROGENY. 3.
FRANKENSTEIN S EXPLOITATION OF THE PROMETHEUS MYTHS BYM.K. JOSEPH 42
AMONG THE EXISTING LITERARY WORKS AND IDEAS THAT INSPIRED MARY SHELLEY
IN CONSTRUCTING FRANKENSTEIN WERE THE ANCIENT GREEK MYTHS OF PROMETHEUS,
THE GOD WHO SUPPOSEDLY CREATED THE HUMAN RACE FROM INANIMATE CLAY. 4.
THE MONSTER MODELED ON MILTON S ADAM BY CHRISTOPHER SMALL 47 ALONE IN A
STRANGE AND OFTEN FRIGHTENING WORLD HE DOES NOT AT FIRST COMPREHEND,
VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN S CREATION HAS MUCH IN COMMON WITH ADAM IN THE
GARDEN OF EDEN, AS WELL AS ADAM S NEMESIS, SATAN, BOTH OF WHOM ENGLISH
POET JOHN MILTON DEFINI- TIVELY DESCRIBED IN HIS CLASSIC PARADISE LOST.
5. FRANKENSTEIN EXPLORES THE DESTRUCTIVE POTENTIAL OF SCIENCE BY
ELIZABETH NITCHIE 53 ONE OF THE MOST OBVIOUS CONCEPTS DEVELOPED IN
FRANKEN- STEIN IS THE GRAND AND ENLIGHTENED POTENTIAL OF MODERN SCI-
ENCE AND HOW THIS POTENTIAL CAN, FOR VARIOUS REASONS, BE- COME
DISTORTED, WITH THE RESULT THAT AN INVENTOR S CREATION CAN TURN ON HIM
OR HER AND BLIGHT HUMANITY. CHAPTER 2: SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL THEMES
IN FRANKENSTEIN 1. SOCIETY UNFAIRLY ASSOCIATES PHYSICAL DEFORMITY WITH
MONSTROSITY BY JUDITH HALBERSTAM 59 THE MONSTER S REJECTION BY ITS
CREATOR, VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN, AND BY SOCIETY AS A WHOLE IS IN LARGE
DEGREE THE RESULT OF ITS PHYSICAL UGLINESS, A CHARACTERISTIC OFTEN
ASSOCIATED WITH INFERIOR MENTAL- ITY, RACE, AND CLASS IN THE SOCIETY IN
WHICH MARY SHELLEY LIVED. 2. ABANDONMENT AND LACK OF PROPER NURTURE
SHAPE THE MONSTER S NATURE BY ANNE K. MELLOR 68 A DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR
CONTENDS THAT VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN S ABANDONMENT OF HIS CREATION, THE
MONSTER, IS NO DIFFERENT THAN A PARENT S ABANDONMENT OF A CHILD, WHOSE
SUBSEQUENT FEELINGS OF LONELINESS AND REJECTION CAN RETARD THE DEVELOP-
MENT OF A HEALTHY MENTAL STATE. 5. VICTOR AND HIS CREATION STRUGGLE WITH
GENDER IDENTITY BY WILLIAM PATRICK DAY 78 WHEN HE CREATES THE MONSTER,
WHICH IS IN A SENSE HIS OFF- SPRING, VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN COMPLETES THE
ACT OF REPRODUCTION WITHOUT THE NEED OF A WOMAN. IN A WAY, THEN, HE
TAKES ON THE WOMAN S TRADITIONAL REPRODUCTIVE ROLE. IN FACT, A NOTED
SCHOLAR SUGGESTS, BOTH HE AND HIS CREATION CONSISTENTLY ENCOUNTER DIFFI-
CULTY IN ACHIEVING A NORMAL GENDER IDENTITY. 4. TAMPERING IN GOD S
DOMAIN BY TIMOTHY J. MADIGAN 84 ONE OF THE MOST OFTEN DISCUSSED AND
CRITICIZED THEMES IN FRANKENSTEIN IS THAT OF A HUMAN BEING MEDDLING IN
GOD S AF- FAIRS BY ATTEMPTING TO FIND AND MANIPULATE THE VERY SPARK
AND MECHANISMS OF LIFE. MANY PEOPLE TODAY WORRY THAT SCIENTISTS ARE LIKE
MODERN DR. FRANKENSTEINS, WHOSE DISCOVERIES MIGHT ENDANGER RATHER THAN
BENEFIT HUMANITY. 5. FRANKENSTEIN S SELF-CENTEREDNESS LEADS INEVITABLY
TO SELF-DESTRUCTION BY ARTHUR PAUL PATTERSON 90 VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN IS
CONSUMED WITH THE DESIRE TO CREATE LIFE. BUT WHEN HE SUCCEEDS, HE
SELFISHLY REFUSES TO TAKE RESPONSIBIL- K ITY FOR HIS CREATION. THIS
LEADS HIM AND PERHAPS OTHER SUCH DRIVEN, SELF-CENTERED INDIVIDUALS TO
DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES. CHAPTER 3: STAGE AND FILM ADAPTATIONS OF
FRANKENSTEIN 1. STAGE SHOWS INSPIRED BY FRANKENSTEIN BY DONALD F. GLUT
101 LARFFE NNMHER OF STAGE PLAYS HAVE BEEN ADAPTED FROM THE F NIBDKRS.
TAATS-.UNIV,.| NOVEL FRANKENSTEIN, MANY OF WHICH HAVE TAKEN
LIBERTIES WITH THE ORIGINAL. IN ONE VERSION, FOR INSTANCE, THE MONSTER
DIES IN AN AVALANCHE; IN ANOTHER, HE MEETS A FIERY END IN A VOLCANO; IN
STILL ANOTHER, HE DOES NOT DIE AT ALL. INDEED, SOME OF THESE ADAPATIONS
ARE COMEDIES! 2. TRANSFERRING THE NOVEL S GOTHIC SENSIBILITIES TO THE
SCREEN BY WHEELER WINSTON DIXON 115 MOST PEOPLE KNOW THE STORY AND
CHARACTERS OF MARY SHELLEY S FRANKENSTEIN ONLY FROM THE MOVIES. DOZENS
OF FILMS HAVE AT- TEMPTED TO CAPTURE OR CASH IN ON THE MOST COMPELLING
AS- PECTS OF THE NOVEL, IN THE PROCESS MAKING FRANKENSTEIN AND HIS
CREATION AMONG THE WORLD S MOST RECOGNIZABLE LITERARY , FIGURES. 3. THE
1931 FILM MAKES FRANKENSTEIN A CULTURAL ICON BY DAVID J. SKAL 129 TO
MOST PEOPLE, FRANKENSTEIN S MONSTER WILL ALWAYS BE IDEN- TIFIED WITH THE
LATE, GREAT ACTOR BORIS RARLOFF, WHOSE MAKEUP FOR AND INTERPRETATION OF
THE ROLE IN THE 1931 FILM VERSION OF MARY SHELLEY S CLASSIC TALE MADE
THE IMAGE OF THE MONSTER AND THE BOOK S CENTRAL CONCEPT INSTANTLY
RECOGNIZABLE EVERY- WHERE. 4. HAMMER S FRANKENSTEIN CYCLE EMPHASIZES
BOTH OLD AND NEW THEMES BY PETER HUTCHINGS 138 ONE OF THE MOST
INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING MODERN DEVEL- OPMENTS OF MARY SHELLEY S
FRANKENSTEINIAN CONCEPTS AND CHARACTERS WAS THE CYCLE OF
FRANKENSTEIN MOTION PICTURES PRODUCED BY HAMMER FILMS FROM THE 1950S
THROUGH THE 1970S, WHICH TENDED TO EMPHASIZE THE CREATOR MORE THAN HIS
CREATION. CHRONOLOGY 147 FOR FURTHER RESEARCH 150 INDEX 153
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