Description: Abbreviations ix Introduction: Frankenstein: Presence, Process, Progress Francesca Saggini PA R T I Labs, Bots, and Punks: Transmediating Technology and Science 1 Frankenstein and Science Fiction Gino Roncaglia 2 Monstrous Algorithms and the Web of Fear: Risk, Crisis, and Spectral Finance in Robert Harris's The Fear Index Lidia De Michelis 3 Frankensteinian Gods, Fembots, and the New Technological Frontier in Alex Garland's Ex_Machina Eleanor Beal PA R T I I Becoming Monsters: The Limits of the Human 4 Staging Steampunk Aesthetics in Frankenstein Adaptations: Mechanization, Disability, and the Body Claire Nally 5 Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus in the Postcolony Claudia Gualtieri 6 Four- Color Myth: Frankenstein in the Comics Federico Meschini PA RT I I I The Evolution Games of Sight and Sound 7 "Uncouth and inarticulate sounds": Musico- Literary Traces in Frankenstein, and Frankenstein in Art Music Enrico Reggiani 8 Enter Monsieur le Monstre: Cultural Border- Crossing and Frankenstein in London and Paris in 1826 Diego Saglia 9 The Theme of the Doppelgnger in James Searle Dawley's Frankenstein Daniele Pio Buenza 10 Perverting the Family: Re- Working Victor Frankenstein's Gothic Blood- Ties in Penny Dreadful Ruth Heholt PA R T I V Monster Reflections 11 The Masked Performer and "the Mane Electric": The Lives and Multimedia Afterlives of Margaret Atwood's Doctor Frankenstein Janet Larson 12 Young Adult Frankenstein Andrew McInnes 13 Revivifying Frankenstein's Myth: Historical Encounters and Dialogism in Back from the Dead: The True Sequel to Frankenstein Anna Enrichetta Soccio Acknowledgments Bibliography Index About the Contributors

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