On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures presents studies of
Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines
such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television studies,
English and digital humanities. These innovative contributions
investigate the afterlives of a novel taught in a disparate array
of courses - Frankenstein disturbs and transcends boundaries, be
they political, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and not least of
media, ensuring its vibrant presence in contemporary popular
culture. Transmedia Creatures highlights how cultural content is
redistributed through multiple media, forms and modes of production
(including user-generated ones from “below”) that often appear
synchronously and dismantle and renew established readings of the
text, while at the same time incorporating and revitalizing aspects
that have always been central to it. The authors engage with
concepts, value systems and aesthetic-moral categories—among them
the family, horror, monstrosity, diversity, education, risk,
technology, the body—from a variety of contemporary approaches
and highly original perspectives, which yields new connections.
Ultimately, Frankenstein, as evidenced by this collection, is
paradoxically enriched by the heteroglossia of preconceptions,
misreadings, and overreadings that attend it, and that reveal the
complex interweaving of perceptions and responses it generates.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide
by Rutgers University Press.
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