Rebecca Baumann

Frankenstein 200 (eBook, ePUB)

The Birth, Life, and Resurrection of Mary Shelley's Monster

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253039071
• Artikelnr.: 52517215

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
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