The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein
The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein consists of sixteen original essays on Mary Shelley's novel by leading scholars, providing an invaluable introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical contexts. Theoretically informed but accessibly written, this volume relates Frankenstein to various social, literary, scientific and historical contexts, and outlines how critical theories such as ecocriticism, posthumanism and queer theory generate new and important discussion in illuminating ways. The volume also explores the cultural afterlife of the novel including its adaptations in various media such as drama, film, television, graphic novels, and literature aimed at children and young adults. Written by an international team of leading experts, the essays provide new insights into the novel and the various critical approaches which can be applied to it. The volume is an essential guide to students and academics who are interested in Frankenstein and who wish to know more about its complex literary history.
Andrew Smith is Reader in Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield. His 18 books include Gothic Death 17401914: A Literary History (2016), The Ghost Story 18401920: A Cultural History (2010), Gothic Literature (2007, revised 2013), Victorian Demons (2004) and Gothic Radicalism (2000). He edits, with Benjamin Fisher, the award winning series Gothic Literary Studies and Gothic Authors: Critical Revisions, published by the University of Wales Press. He also edits, with William Hughes, The Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic series, published by Edinburgh University Press. He is a past President of the International Gothic Association.
A complete list of books in the series is at the .
The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein
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For Diane Long Hoeveler
In Memoriam
Contents
Andrew Smith
Charles E. Robinson
Lisa Vargo
Jerrold E. Hogle
Catherine Lanone
Andrew Smith
Adriana Craciun
Angela Wright
George E. Haggerty
Patrick Brantlinger
Timothy Morton
Andy Mousley
Diane Long Hoeveler
Mark Jancovich
David Punter
Christopher Murray
Karen Coats and Farran Norris Sands
Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy Professor (Emeritus) from Indiana University. He served as Editor of Victorian Studies from 1980 to 1990. Among his publications are Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism (1988); The Reading Lesson: Mass Literacy as Threat in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (1998); Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races (2003); Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America (1990); Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians (2011); and, most recently, States of Emergency: Essays on Culture and Politics (2013).
Karen Coats is Professor of English at Illinois State University. She is author of Looking Glasses and Neverlands: Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity in Children's Literature (2004), and co-editor of The Gothic in Children's Literature: Haunting the Borders (2007) and the Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature (2011).
Adriana Craciun is University of California Presidential Chair at the University of California, Riverside, and has previously taught at the University of London and the University of Nottingham. She is the author of numerous works on British literature and culture, the history of exploration, and material textuality. Her most recent books are Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration (2016) and The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences (with Simon Schaffer, 2016).
George E. Haggerty is Distinguished Professor and Chair of English at the University of California, Riverside. His recent publications include Horace Walpole's Letters: Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth-Century (2011); Queer Gothic (2006); Music and Sexuality in Britten: Selected Essays of Philip Brett (2006); and The Blackwell Companion to LGBTI/Q Studies (with Molly McGarry, 2007). He is currently at work on a biography of Horace Walpole.
Diane Long Hoeveler was Professor of English at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Books include The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 17701870 (2014), as well as Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 17801820 (2010). In addition, she authored Gothic Feminism (1998) and Romantic Androgyny (1990). In addition to publishing some 65 articles on a variety of literary topics, she co-authored a critical study of Charlotte Bront , and edited or co-edited another 20 books on a variety of topics in the Gothic and women's literature. She served as President of the International Conference of Romanticism from 20012003, and co-editor of the European Romantic Review .
Jerrold E. Hogle is University Distinguished Professor in English at the University of Arizona. A former President of the International Gothic Association, holder of Guggenheim and Mellon research fellowships, and winner of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the KeatsShelley Association of America, he has published widely on Romantic and Gothic literature. His books include The Undergrounds of The Phantom of the Opera (2002) and The Cambridge Companion to the Modern Gothic (2014).
Mark Jancovich is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of several books: Horror (1992); The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism (1993); Rational Fears: American Horror in the 1950s (1996); and The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption (with Lucy Faire and Sarah Stubbings, 2003). He is also the editor of several collections: Approaches to Popular Film (with Joanne Hollows, 1995); Horror, The Film Reader (2001); Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, the Industry and Fans (with James Lyons, 2003); and Defining Cult Movies: The Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste (with Antonio Lazaro-Reboll, Julian Stringer and Andrew Willis, 2003). He was the founder of Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies ; and is currently writing a history of horror in the 1940s.
