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Frankenstein and its classics : the modern Prometheus from antiquity to science fiction / edited by Jesse Weiner, Benjamin Eldon Stevens and Brett M. Rogers.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.
- Bloomsbury studies in classical reception
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft.
- Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character).
- Frankenstein's Monster.
- Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character).
- Frankenstein, Victor.
- Prometheus (Greek deity)--In literature.
- Prometheus.
- Science fiction--Classical influences.
- Science fiction.
- Frankenstein films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
- Summary:
- This scholarly volume explores the intersection of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and classical antiquity, investigating how ancient Graeco-Roman culture informs the modern narrative of Frankenstein and its adaptations. The essays, contributed by experts in various fields, examine themes such as Promethean myth, scientific ethics, Romanticism, and classical receptions within literature and media. The book is intended for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of classical studies, Romantic literature, and science fiction, providing insights into the historical and cultural influences that shaped Mary Shelley's groundbreaking work and its continuing relevance in discussions of technology, ethics, and creativity. Generated by AI.
- Contents:
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Illustrations
- Introduction: The Modern Prometheus Turns 200
- Frankenstein and Its Classics: The Case of Plutarch
- The Frankenstein Tradition: The Case of Scalzi (and Jared)
- Frankenstein 's Classical Receptions and Twenty-First-Century Questions
- Outline of the Volume
- Notes
- Part One Promethean Heat
- 1 Patchwork Paratexts and Monstrous Metapoetics: "After tea M reads Ovid"
- Monstrous Metapoets: Ovidian Frankensteins
- Monstrous Metamorphoses: Matter unform'd and Ovid
- Patchwork Paratexts: "Prometheus mixt"
- 2 Prometheus and Dr. Darwin's Vermicelli: Another Stir to the Frankenstein Broth
- Galvanic or Organic? Two Films
- Which Prometheus?
- Erasmus Darwin's Giants
- Little Worms and Dr. Darwin's Vermicelli
- Magi and Alchemists
- Conclusion
- 3 The Politics of Revivification in Lucan's Bellum Civile and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- The "Galvanic Process": Lucan's and Shelley's Monsters
- Lucan on the Corpse of the Res Publica
- Shelley and the French Revolution
- 4 Romantic Prometheis and the Molding of Frankenstein
- Newton's Return to Nature and Percy Shelley's Queen Mab
- Pantheons and Modern Prometheis
- 5 Why the 'Year without a Summer'?
- Introduction
- The Eruption
- The Aftermath
- Conclusion: Mary Shelley in 1816
- Glossary
- 6 The Sublime Monster: Frankenstein , or The Modern Pandora
- Ars poetica: Hesiod's Pandora
- How to Make a Monster
- Technology of the Sublime: Hesiod
- Deformity and/as the Kantian Sublime
- Technology of the Sublime: Longinus
- Conclusions: The Creature as Genius loci of the Sublime Landscape
- Part Two Hideous Progeny.
- 7 Cupid and Psyche in Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Apuleian Science Fiction?
- Historical Connections via Paratextual Evidence
- Cupid and Psyche in Frankenstein: Forms and Themes
- Cupid and Psyche at the End of Human History: The Last Man
- Conclusions: The Future of Frankenstein 's Classical Receptions
- or, Mary Shelley's Apuleian Science Fiction?
- 8 The Pale Student of Unhallowed Arts: Frankenstein, Aristotle, and theWisdom of Lucretius
- 9 Timothy Leary and the Psychodynamics of Stealing Fire
- Literary Activism, or Hacking the Promethean Myth
- Timothy Leary
- or, the Modern Victor Frankenstein
- Unmasking the Monster: Magic Mushrooms and the Neuropolitics of Empathy
- Reanimating Leary's Legacy
- 10 Frankenfilm: Classical Monstrosity in Bill Morrison's Spark of Being
- Antiquarianism, Recombination, and Reanimation in Spark of Being
- Monsters in the Mirror, Monsters on the Screen
- 11 Alex Garland's Ex Machina or The Modern Epimetheus
- 12 The Postmodern Prometheus and Posthuman Reproductions in Science Fiction
- Thinking with Prometheus1
- The Modern Prometheus
- Postmodern/Posthuman Prometheus
- Ancient Prometheus
- Other Modern Prometheis: Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing
- Short Stories, Novels, and Plays
- Film
- Television
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
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- ISBN:
- 1-350-05490-9
- OCLC:
- 1045426555
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