It's Alive!: A Visual History of Frankenstein - Couverture rigide

Denlinger, Elizabeth Campbell

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1911282417 ISBN 13 : 9781911282419

Editeur : D Giles Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

This book shows how Mary Shelley created a monster. Commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of Frankenstein, it traces the origins and impact of her novel - a classic of world literature, a masterpiece of horror, and a forerunner of science fiction. Shelley conceived the archetype of the mad scientist who dares to flout the laws of nature. She devised a conflicted creature, eloquent and repulsive, torn between good and evil. In the movies he can be a brute pure and simple, yet he is still an object of compassion and remains a favourite on stage and screen. Theatrical adaptations made the fame of Frankenstein. Shelley wrote a novel of ideas with a philosophising creature, hardly the stuff of a mass-market bestseller. In the theatre, however, the monster is mute, a terrifying transformation accomplished by actor Thomas P. Cooke, who played the part in 1823, and took London and Paris by storm. Subsequent dramatisations caught the popular imagination and inspired the movie versions, which spawned spin-offs, sequels, mash-ups, tributes, and parodies. Replicants of Frankenstein are so prevalent in today's culture that the name has become a meme signifying forbidden science, unintended consequences, and ghastly amalgamations. This engaging visual record begins with a biography of the author and continues through current reinterpretations of the story. Many of the contextual images have never been published before in print.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger is the curator of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at The New York Public Library. She co-curated Shelley's Ghost: The Afterlife of a Poet and Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era; she wrote the companion volume of the same title for the latter exhibition. She holds a PhD from New York University and lives in New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: D Giles Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1911282417
• ISBN 13: 9781911282419
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible