Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster
mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting
harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale
so adaptable and so resilient that, nearly 200 years later, it
still seems vitally relevant in a culture radically different from
the one that spawned its birth? Monstrous Progeny takes readers on
a fascinating exploration of the Frankenstein family tree, tracing
the literary and intellectual roots of Shelley's novel from the
sixteenth century and analyzing the evolution of the book's figures
and themes into modern productions that range from children's
cartoons to pornography. Along the way, media scholar Lester D.
Friedman and historian Allison B. Kavey examine the adaptation and
evolution of Dr. Frankenstein and his monster across different
genres and in different eras. In doing so, they demonstrate how
Shelley's tale and its characters continue to provide crucial
reference points for current debates about bioethics, artificial
intelligence, cyborg lifeforms, and the limits of scientific
progress. Blending an extensive historical overview with a detailed
analysis of key texts, the authors reveal how the Frankenstein
legacy arose from a series of fluid intellectual contexts and
continues to pulsate through an extraordinary body of media
products. Both thought-provoking and entertaining, Monstrous
Progeny offers a lively look at an undying and significant cultural
phenomenon.
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