Frankenstein and Its Classics : The Modern Prometheus from Antiquity to Science Fiction.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Illustrations -- Introduction: The Modern Prometheus Turns 200 -- Frankenstein and Its Classics: The Case of Plutarch -- The Frankenstein Tradition: The Case of Scalzi (and Jared) -- Frankenstein 's Classical Receptions and Twenty-First-Century Questions -- Outline of the Volume -- Notes -- Part One Promethean Heat -- 1 Patchwork Paratexts and Monstrous Metapoetics: "After tea M reads Ovid" -- Monstrous Metapoets: Ovidian Frankensteins -- Monstrous Metamorphoses: Matter unform'd and Ovid -- Patchwork Paratexts: "Prometheus mixt" -- Notes -- 2 Prometheus and Dr. Darwin's Vermicelli: Another Stir to the Frankenstein Broth -- Galvanic or Organic? Two Films -- Which Prometheus? -- Erasmus Darwin's Giants -- Little Worms and Dr. Darwin's Vermicelli -- Magi and Alchemists -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 The Politics of Revivification in Lucan's Bellum Civile and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- The "Galvanic Process": Lucan's and Shelley's Monsters -- Lucan on the Corpse of the Res Publica -- Shelley and the French Revolution -- Notes -- 4 Romantic Prometheis and the Molding of Frankenstein -- Newton's Return to Nature and Percy Shelley's Queen Mab -- Pantheons and Modern Prometheis -- Notes -- 5 Why the 'Year without a Summer'? -- Introduction -- The Eruption -- The Aftermath -- Conclusion: Mary Shelley in 1816 -- Glossary -- Notes -- 6 The Sublime Monster: Frankenstein , or The Modern Pandora -- Introduction -- Ars poetica: Hesiod's Pandora -- How to Make a Monster -- Technology of the Sublime: Hesiod -- Deformity and/as the Kantian Sublime -- Technology of the Sublime: Longinus -- Conclusions: The Creature as Genius loci of the Sublime Landscape -- Notes -- Part Two Hideous Progeny.

7 Cupid and Psyche in Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Apuleian Science Fiction? -- Introduction -- Historical Connections via Paratextual Evidence -- Cupid and Psyche in Frankenstein: Forms and Themes -- Cupid and Psyche at the End of Human History: The Last Man -- Conclusions: The Future of Frankenstein 's Classical Receptions -- or, Mary Shelley's Apuleian Science Fiction? -- Notes -- 8 The Pale Student of Unhallowed Arts: Frankenstein, Aristotle, and theWisdom of Lucretius -- Notes -- 9 Timothy Leary and the Psychodynamics of Stealing Fire -- Literary Activism, or Hacking the Promethean Myth -- Timothy Leary -- or, the Modern Victor Frankenstein -- Unmasking the Monster: Magic Mushrooms and the Neuropolitics of Empathy -- Reanimating Leary's Legacy -- Notes -- 10 Frankenfilm: Classical Monstrosity in Bill Morrison's Spark of Being -- Introduction -- Antiquarianism, Recombination, and Reanimation in Spark of Being -- Monsters in the Mirror, Monsters on the Screen -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11 Alex Garland's Ex Machina or The Modern Epimetheus -- Notes -- 12 The Postmodern Prometheus and Posthuman Reproductions in Science Fiction -- Thinking with Prometheus1 -- The Modern Prometheus -- Postmodern/Posthuman Prometheus -- Ancient Prometheus -- Notes -- Other Modern Prometheis: Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing -- Short Stories, Novels, and Plays -- Film -- Television -- Bibliography -- Index.

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