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- catalog abstract ""Some of the most significant currents in modern intellectual and cultural history pass by way of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1816). By choosing in her book as a guiding theme the idea of the scientist who creates a monster, she both revives for the Romantic period the traditional link between scientific experiment and natural magic, and makes her own contribution to the debate on the difference between 'creation' and 'production' that was flourishing among the natural scientists of her time." "Frankenstein thus signals a remarkable integration of the broad issues of contemporary science and culture within the form of a popular fiction. In this way, it stands at the head of a productive tendency which is marked, over the coming century, by related works like Bram Stoker's Dracula and H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau. Common to all of these works is a fascination with the ethics of creation, and the phenomenon of monstrosity, which provokes intriguing questions about the place of the monster in Western visual culture."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b6973235.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ""Some of the most significant currents in modern intellectual and cultural history pass by way of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1816). By choosing in her book as a guiding theme the idea of the scientist who creates a monster, she both revives for the Romantic period the traditional link between scientific experiment and natural magic, and makes her own contribution to the debate on the difference between 'creation' and 'production' that was flourishing among the natural scientists of her time." "Frankenstein thus signals a remarkable integration of the broad issues of contemporary science and culture within the form of a popular fiction. In this way, it stands at the head of a productive tendency which is marked, over the coming century, by related works like Bram Stoker's Dracula and H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau. Common to all of these works is a fascination with the ethics of creation, and the phenomenon of monstrosity, which provokes intriguing questions about the place of the monster in Western visual culture."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-212) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction / Stephen Bann -- Rewriting the family : Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' in its biographical/textual context / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Frankenstein and natural magic / Crosbie Smith -- Melancholy reflection : constructing an identity for unveilers of nature / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Frankenstein's monster in two traditions / Louis James -- Impressionist monsters : H.G. Wells's 'The Island of Dr Moreau' / Michael Fried -- James Whale's 'Frankenstein' : the horror film and the symbolic biology of the cinematic monster / Michael Grant -- Artificial life and the myth of Frankenstein / Jasia Reichardt -- Narrating the monster : from Mary Shelley to Bram Stoker / Robert Olorenshaw -- The bread and the blood / Jean-Louis Schefer.".
- catalog extent "viii, 215 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Frankenstein, creation, and monstrosity.".
- catalog identifier "0948462590".
- catalog identifier "0948462604 (pbk)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Frankenstein, creation, and monstrosity.".
- catalog isPartOf "Critical views".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Reaktion Books,".
- catalog relation "Frankenstein, creation, and monstrosity.".
- catalog subject "823/.7 20".
- catalog subject "Creation in literature.".
- catalog subject "Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character)".
- catalog subject "Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character)".
- catalog subject "Horror tales, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Monsters in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR5397.F73 F69 1994".
- catalog subject "Science fiction, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Scientists in literature.".
- catalog subject "Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Stephen Bann -- Rewriting the family : Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' in its biographical/textual context / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Frankenstein and natural magic / Crosbie Smith -- Melancholy reflection : constructing an identity for unveilers of nature / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Frankenstein's monster in two traditions / Louis James -- Impressionist monsters : H.G. Wells's 'The Island of Dr Moreau' / Michael Fried -- James Whale's 'Frankenstein' : the horror film and the symbolic biology of the cinematic monster / Michael Grant -- Artificial life and the myth of Frankenstein / Jasia Reichardt -- Narrating the monster : from Mary Shelley to Bram Stoker / Robert Olorenshaw -- The bread and the blood / Jean-Louis Schefer.".
- catalog title "Frankenstein, creation, and monstrosity / edited by Stephen Bann.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".