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Two centuries ago, a teenage genius created a monster that still walks among us. In 1818, Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, and in doing so set forth into the world a scientist and his monster. The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, famed women's rights advocate, and William Godwin, radical political thinker and writer, Mary Shelley is considered the mother of the modern genres of horror and science fiction. At its core, however, Shelley's Frankenstein is a contemplation on what it means to be human, what it means to chase perfection, and what it means to fear things suchsuch things as ugliness, loneliness, and rejection. In celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, the Lilly Library at Indiana University presents Frankenstein 200: The Birth, Life, and Resurrection of Mary Shelley's Monster. This beautifully illustrated catalog looks closely at Mary Shelley's life and influences, examines the hundreds of reincarnations her book and its characters have enjoyed, and highlights the vast, deep, and eclectic collections of the Lilly Library. This exhibition catalog is a celebration of books, of the monstrousness that exists within us all, and of the genius of Mary Shelley.

Library exhibits --- Frankenstein's Monster --- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, --- Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington) --- Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft) --- Indiana

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In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida. The essay marked the beginning of Johnson's lifelong interest in Shelley as well as her first foray into the field of "women's studies," one of whose commitments was the rediscovery and analysis of works by women writers previously excluded from the academic canon. Indeed, the last book Johnson completed before her death was Mary Shelley and Her Circle, published here for the first time. Shelley was thus the subject for Johnson's beginning in feminist criticism and also for her end. It is surprising to recall that when Johnson wrote her essay, only two of Shelley's novels were in print, critics and scholars having mostly dismissed her writing as inferior and her career as a side effect of her famous husband's. Inspired by groundbreaking feminist scholarship of the seventies, Johnson came to pen yet more essays on Shelley over the course of a brilliant but tragically foreshortened career. So much of what we know and think about Mary Shelley today is due to her and a handful of scholars working just decades ago. In this volume, Judith Butler and Shoshana Felman have united all of Johnson's published and unpublished work on Shelley alongside their own new, insightful pieces of criticism and those of two other peers and fellow pioneers in feminist theory, Mary Wilson Carpenter and Cathy Caruth. The book thus evolves as a conversation amongst key scholars of shared intellectual inclinations while closing the circle on Johnson's life and her own fascination with the life and circle of another woman writer, who, of course, also happened to be the daughter of a founder of modern feminism.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, --- Johnson, Barbara, --- Johnson, Barbara E. --- Jonson, Bābara, --- ジョンソンバーバラ, --- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, --- Shelli, Mėri, --- Shelley, --- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, --- Shelley, Mary, --- Shelley, Maria, --- שלי, מרי, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Johnson, Barbara, -- 1947-2009 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, -- 1797-1851 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Johnson, Barbara, -- 1947-2009 -- Criticism and interpretation --- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, -- 1797-1851 -- Criticism and interpretation

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This book provides readers with in-depth, critical discussions of the life and works of Mary Shelley. A chronology of Shelley's life, a complete list of Shelley's works and their original dates of publication, a general bibliography, a detailed paragraph on the volume's editor, notes on the individual chapter authors, and a subject index are also provided.

Monsters in literature. --- English fiction --- History and criticism. --- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, --- Frankenstein's monster --- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, --- Shelli, Mėri, --- Shelley, --- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, --- Shelley, Mary, --- Shelley, Maria, --- שלי, מרי, --- Frankenstein --- Frankenstein, Victor --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character) --- Frankenstein's Monster

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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.

Monsters in mass media. --- Mass media --- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, --- Frankenstein, Victor --- Frankenstein's Monster --- Frankenstein --- Dr. Frankenstein --- Frankenstein, --- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, --- Shelli, Mėri, --- Shelley, --- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, --- Shelley, Mary, --- Shelley, Maria, --- שלי, מרי,