Research Catalog

Title

Frankenstein : the first two hundred years / Sir Christopher Frayling.

Author

Frayling, Christopher

Publication

• London, UK : Reel Art Press, an imprint of Rare Art Press Ltd, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Description

208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm

Summary

On New Year's Day 1818, Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was first published in an anonymous three-volume edition of 500 copies. Some thought the book was too radical in implication. A few found the central theme intriguing ... no-one predicted its success. This book, celebrating the two hundredth birthday of Frankenstein, traces, in colorful and engaging ways, the journey of Shelley's Frankenstein from limited edition literature to the bloodstream of contemporary culture. It includes new research on the novel's origins, and a facsimile reprint of the earliest-known manuscript version of the creation scene. Frankenstein's legacy is to be seen all over the world--on small and large screens, in print and online, on stage and on hoardings, in graphic novels, comics and even on cereal packets. From a Regency nightmare, Frankenstein's creature has even become a cuddly childhood companion--thoroughly munstered, so to speak. The real creation myth of modern times--the era of genetic engineering, three-parent babies, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, robotics and singularity, human/animal interfaces and secularism--is no longer Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The real creation myth is Frankenstein. -- Inside jacket flap.

Subjects

• Illustrated works
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays
• ART > Film & Video
• Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character)
• Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character)
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 > Frankenstein
• ART > Popular Culture
• Frankenstein films
• Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft)

Genre/Form

Illustrated works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-207).

Contents

The story. 'a wet, ungenial summer' -- 'Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated' -- 'We will each write a ghost story' -- 'infusing life into an inanimate body' -- 'I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper' -- Frankenstein- a visual celebration.

Call Number

JFF 19-1952

ISBN

• 9781909526464
• 1909526460

LCCN

2017433391

OCLC

1011232178

Author

Frayling, Christopher, author.

Title

Frankenstein : the first two hundred years / Sir Christopher Frayling.

Publisher

London, UK : Reel Art Press, an imprint of Rare Art Press Ltd, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-207).

Research Call Number

JFF 19-1952

Pforz (Frankenstein. Frayling. C. Frankenstein)