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PublisherGiles The Limited, D.
ISBN-101911282417
ISBN-139781911282419
eBay Product ID (ePID)23038411070
Product Key Features
Book TitleIt's Alive! : a Visual History of Frankenstein
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPopular Culture, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2018
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Art
AuthorElizabeth Campbell Denlinger
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight59.6 Oz
Item Length11.2 in
Item Width8.4 in
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LCCN2018-026429
Reviews" It's Alive! , sumptuously illustrated in color with rare images of treasures from public and private collections, is a feast for the eye and mind. Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger's hugely enjoyable, witty, thoughtful commentary, underpinned by extensive scholarship, expertly guides us though the labyrinths of this visual treat, tracing the history of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from its beginnings to its becoming a universal meme. She takes us through antecedents of Frankenstein in eighteenth-century scientific experiments and Gothic terror tales, its genesis, making and publication, and (a special strength of the exhibition) its afterlife in nineteenth-century melodrama, Hollywood movies, posters, comic books, cartoons, and illustrations. It's Alive! showed me much and taught me much. Those lucky enough to see the Morgan Library Exhibition will treasure It's Alive! as a permanent souvenir; the rest of us will treasure it as the nearest thing to being there. It is all set to be a beautiful reference book and teaching resource. Mary Shelley would have been amazed!"-Nora Crook, Professor Emerita, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Editor of Frankenstein , and General Editor of Mary Shelley's novels "This magnificent book is something new. Its many illustrations, thoughtfully chosen and superbly reproduced, provide the best, indeed the only, visual history of Frankenstein. Denlinger's text is a delight. She is not just an expert and engaging guide to a wealth of literary, historical and artistic material: she has profound things to say about Mary Shelley's great novel and its relevance to today's world.":-Stephen Hebron, Head of Weston Library Reader Services, Bodleian Libraries, author of Shelley's Ghost, " It's Alive! , sumptuously illustrated in color with rare images of treasures from public and private collections, is a feast for the eye and mind. Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger's hugely enjoyable, witty, thoughtful commentary, underpinned by extensive scholarship, expertly guides us though the labyrinths of this visual treat, tracing the history of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from its beginnings to its becoming a universal meme. She takes us through antecedents of Frankenstein in eighteenth-century scientific experiments and Gothic terror tales, its genesis, making and publication, and (a special strength of the exhibition) its afterlife in nineteenth-century melodrama, Hollywood movies, posters, comic books, cartoons, and illustrations. It's Alive! showed me much and taught me much. Those lucky enough to see the Morgan Library Exhibition will treasure It's Alive! as a permanent souvenir; the rest of us will treasure it as the nearest thing to being there. It is all set to be a beautiful reference book and teaching resource. Mary Shelley would have been amazed!"--Nora Crook, Professor Emerita, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Editor of Frankenstein , and General Editor of Mary Shelley's novels "This magnificent book is something new. Its many illustrations, thoughtfully chosen and superbly reproduced, provide the best, indeed the only, visual history of Frankenstein. Denlinger's text is a delight. She is not just an expert and engaging guide to a wealth of literary, historical and artistic material: she has profound things to say about Mary Shelley's great novel and its relevance to today's world.":--Stephen Hebron, Head of Weston Library Reader Services, Bodleian Libraries, author of Shelley's Ghost, " It's Alive! , sumptuously illustrated in color with rare images of treasures from public and private collections, is a feast for the eye and mind. Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger's hugely enjoyable, witty, thoughtful commentary, underpinned by extensive scholarship, expertly guides us though the labyrinths of this visual treat, tracing the history of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from its beginnings to its becoming a universal meme. She takes us through antecedents of Frankenstein in eighteenth-century scientific experiments and Gothic terror tales, its genesis, making and publication, and (a special strength of the exhibition) its afterlife in nineteenth-century melodrama, Hollywood movies, posters, comic books, cartoons, and illustrations. It's Alive! showed me much and taught me much. Those lucky enough to see the Morgan Library Exhibition will treasure It's Alive! as a permanent souvenir; the rest of us will treasure it as the nearest thing to being there. It is all set to be a beautiful reference book and teaching resource. Mary Shelley would have been amazed!"-Nora Crook, Professor Emerita, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Editor of Frankenstein , and General Editor of Mary Shelley's novels.
Table Of ContentDirector's Foreword by Colin B. Bailey Too Horrible for Human Eyes: The Frankenstein Mystique by Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger Chapter 1: The Gothic Background Chapter 2: The Spark of Being: Science in Frankenstein Chapter 3: Romantic Childhoods Chapter 4: Summer of 1816 Chapter 5: Frankenstein in Her Time Chapter 6: Living On Chapter 7: Frankenstein on Stage and Screen Chapter 8: Frankenstein Delineated Illustrations Works Cited Acknowledgments Index
SynopsisThis 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 favorite on stage and screen. Theatrical adaptations made the fame of Frankenstein . Shelley wrote a novel of ideas with a philosophizing creature, hardly the stuff of a mass-market bestseller. In the theater, 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 dramatizations 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., 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 favorite on stage and screen.Theatrical adaptations made the fame of Frankenstein . Shelley wrote a novel of ideas with a philosophizing creature, hardly the stuff of a mass-market bestseller. In the theater, 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 dramatizations 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 vivid, visual, history of Mary Shelley's famous book, which commemorates the 200th anniversary of its publication, and reveals its enduring appeal.
LC Classification NumberPR5397.F73D46 2018
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