Description: Introduction The Frankenstein Complex: when the text is more than a text - Dennis Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry Part I: Dramatic adaptations of Frankenstein on stage and radio 1 Frankenstein's spectacular nineteenth-century stage history and legacy - Lissette Lopez Szwydky 2 A Frankensteinian model for adaptation studies, or 'It Lives!': adaptive symbiosis and Peake's Presumption, or the fate of Frankenstein - Glenn Jellenik 3 The gothic imagination in American sound recordings of Frankenstein - Laurence Raw Part II: Cinematic and television adaptations of Frankenstein 4 A paranoid parable of adaptation: Forbidden Planet, Frankenstein, and the atomic age - Dennis R. Perry 5 The Curse of Frankenstein: Hammer film studios' reinvention of horror cinema - Morgan C. O'Brien 6 The Frankenstein Complex on the small screen: Mary Shelley's motivic novel as adjacent adaptation - Kyle Bishop 7 The new ethics of Frankenstein: responsibility and obedience in I, Robot and X-Men: First Class - Matt Lorenz 8 Hammer films and the perfection of the Frankenstein project - Maria K. Bachman and Paul Peterson Part III: Literary adaptations of Frankenstein 9 'Plainly stitched together': Frankenstein, neo-Victorian fiction, and the palimpsestuous literary past - Jamie Horrocks 10 Frankensteinian re-articulations in Scotland: monstrous marriage, maternity, and the politics of embodiment - Carol Margaret Davison 11 Young Frankensteins: graphic children's texts and the twenty-first-century monster - Jessica Straley 12 In his image: the mad scientist remade in the young adult novel - Farran Norris Sands 13 The soul of the matter: Frankenstein meets H. P. Lovecraft's 'Herbert West-Reanimator' - Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Part IV: Frankenstein in art, illustrations, and comics: from X-Men to steampunk 14 Illustration, adaptation and the development of Frankenstein's visual lexicon - Kate Newell 15 'The X-Men meet Frankenstein! "Nuff Said"': adapting Mary Shelley's monster in superhero comic books- Joe Darowski 16 Expressionism, deformity and abject texture in bande dessine appropriations of Frankenstein - Vronique Bragard and Catherine Thewissen Part V: New media adaptations of Frankenstein 17 Assembling the body/text: Frankenstein in new media - Tully Barnett and Ben Kooyman 18 Adaptations of 'liveness' in theatrical representations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Kelly Jones Afterword Frankenstein's pulse: an afterword - Richard J. Hand Index

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