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Hideous Progenies : Dramatizations of "Frankenstein" from the Nineteenth Century to the Present / Steven Earl Forry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1990Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) : 31 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812281316
  • 9781512802030
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.7 20
LOC classification:
  • PR5397.F73 F67 1990
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Melodrama and Burlesque: 1823–1832 -- 2. Frankenstein Amid the Populace: Victorian Renderings of Shelley's Novel, 1832-1900 -- 3. Reviving Frankenstein in the Twentieth Century: Drama and Cinema, 1900–1930 -- 4. Afterword and List of Plays, 1821-1986 -- Textual Note -- Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (1823) -- Another Piece of Presumption (1823) -- Frank-in-Steam; or, The Modern Promise to Pay (1824) -- Henry M. Milner Frankenstein; or, The Man and the Monster (1826) -- The Monster and Magician; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (1826) -- Frankenstein; or, The Model Man (1849) -- Frankenstein (1930) -- Frankenstein; or, The Vampire’s Victim (1887) -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In Hideous Progenies, Steven Earl Forry offers a historical overview of the legend of Frankenstein's transformation over time--beginning with Shelley's original and the earliest popular dramatizations of it and continuing on through the advent of cinema.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Melodrama and Burlesque: 1823–1832 -- 2. Frankenstein Amid the Populace: Victorian Renderings of Shelley's Novel, 1832-1900 -- 3. Reviving Frankenstein in the Twentieth Century: Drama and Cinema, 1900–1930 -- 4. Afterword and List of Plays, 1821-1986 -- Textual Note -- Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (1823) -- Another Piece of Presumption (1823) -- Frank-in-Steam; or, The Modern Promise to Pay (1824) -- Henry M. Milner Frankenstein; or, The Man and the Monster (1826) -- The Monster and Magician; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (1826) -- Frankenstein; or, The Model Man (1849) -- Frankenstein (1930) -- Frankenstein; or, The Vampire’s Victim (1887) -- Bibliography -- Index

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In Hideous Progenies, Steven Earl Forry offers a historical overview of the legend of Frankenstein's transformation over time--beginning with Shelley's original and the earliest popular dramatizations of it and continuing on through the advent of cinema.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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