Global Frankenstein

by Carol Margaret Davison (Editor), Marie Mulvey-Roberts (Editor)

Consisting of sixteen original essays by experts in the field, including leading and lesser-known international scholars , Global Frankenstein considers the tremendous adaptability and rich afterlives of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, Frankenstein , at its bicentenary, in such fields and disciplines as digital technology, film, theatre, dance, medicine, book illustration, science fiction, comic books, science, and performance art. This ground-breaking, celebratory volume, edited by two established Gothic Studies scholars, reassesses Frankenstein ’s global impact for the twenty-first century across a myriad of cultures and nations, from Japan, Mexico, and Turkey, to Britain, Iraq, Europe, and North America. Offering compelling critical dissections of reincarnations of Frankenstein , a generically hybrid novel described by its early reviewers as a “bold,” “bizarre,” and “impious” production by a writer “with no common powers of mind”, this collection interrogates its sustained relevance over two centuries during which it has engaged with such issues as mortality, global capitalism, gender, race, embodiment, neoliberalism, disability, technology, and the role of science.

370 pages, Hardcover

Published October 24, 2018

About the author

Carol Margaret Davison is Full Professor in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor, Canada. She has authored dozens of articles on women's writing, Gothic, Victorian, postcolonial and African-American literature. A former Canada-U.S. Fulbright scholar and the Series Editor for Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature, she is the editor of The Gothic & Death (2017) for Manchester University Press, winner of the 2019 Allan Lloyd Smith Prize for best edited collection devoted to Gothic Criticism (for which three of her recent publications made the shortlist of four books). She continues in her role as the Director of the sickly taper website, the world's largest and most comprehensive website devoted to Gothic bibliography (www.thesicklytaper.ca), and has published Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature (Palgrave Macmillan 2004), which was shortlisted for the J.I. Segal Award, and History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature, 1764-1824 (University of Wales Press, 2009), which was shortlisted for the International Gothic Association’s Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. The author of numerous articles and book chapters, she the co-editor, with Monica Germanà of Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh UP, 2017) and of Global Frankenstein, with Dr. Marie Mulvey-Roberts (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2017). The editor of a special issue of Gothic Studies on the Gothic and Addiction (2009), she is also the co-editor of a special issue on Marie Corelli for Women’s Writing (UK, 2006), and the editor of Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897–1997 (Oxford: Dundurn Press, 1997), which won the Lord Ruthven Assembly Award (chosen by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts) for the best non-fiction book on Dracula and vampires for 1997.