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.
