Frankenstein: How a Monster Became an Icon: the Science and Enduring Allure of Mary Shelley's Creation - Couverture souple

Perkowitz, Sidney; Von Mueller, Eddy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1643131400 ISBN 13 : 9781643131405

Editeur : Pegasus Books, 2019

Synopsis

"Highly readable and entertaining, with a wealth of interesting information set in an accurate and sound scientific framework. Deserves cult status." New Scientist

The tale of a tormented creature created in a laboratory began on a rainy night in 1816 in the imagination of a nineteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, newly married to the celebrated Romantic poet Percy Shelley. Since its publication two years later, in 1818, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus has spread around the globe through every possible medium and variation. Frankenstein has not been out of print once in 200 years. It has appeared in hundreds of editions, perhaps more than any other novel. It has inspired a multitude of stage and screen adaptations, the latest appearing just last year. "Frankenstein" has become an indelible part of popular culture, and is shorthand for anything bizarre and human-made; for instance, genetically modified crops are "Frankenfood".

Conversely, Frankenstein's monster has also become a benign Halloween favourite. Yet for all its long history, Frankenstein's central premise that science, not magic or God, can create a living being, and thus these creators must answer for their actions as humans, not Gods is most relevant today as scientists approach creating synthetic life.

In its popular and cultural weight and its expression of the ethical issues raised by the advance of science, physicist Sidney Perkowitz and film expert Eddy von Muller have brought together scholars and scientists, artists and directors -including Mel Brooks to celebrate and examine Mary Shelley's marvellous creation and its legacy as the monster moves into his next century.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sidney Perkowitz is a professor emeritus at Emory University. He is the author of Empire of Light and Universal Foam and has written for The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Discover, Physics World, Aeon and more. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pegasus Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1643131400
• ISBN 13: 9781643131405
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible