Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 Frankenstein: The Book; The Teenager Who Wrote Frankenstein; Sidbar: Motherless Children; Capsule: Walton's Story; Sidebar: The Northwest Passage; Monstrouns Beginnings: Precursors and Antecedents; Sidebar: The Word "Monster"; Capsule: Victor Frankenstein's Story; Accursed Origins: The Romantic Era and Its Influence; Sidebar: Does the Title Explain It All?; I Am Galvanized: Frankenstein Science, Then and Now; Ten Easy Steps for Setting up a Mad Scientist Lab; Capsule: The Orphan's Story; Why I'm a Vegegtarian: An Interview with a Veggie Monster; Sidebar: Creation of a Second Monster, Eve; Maps of Scotland and Russia; Sidebar: Polar Opposites; Sidebar: From Ice-olation to the Fireside Hearth; Fleshing It Out: How Mary Shelley Wrote It; Sidebar: A Postpartum Novel?; How They Died; All Stitched Up: The 1818 and 1831 Editions; Hideous Progeny; The Quotable Shelley; Sons of Frankenstein; June 16--The Joyce Connection; Part 2 Frankenstein--A Universal Story; Fainting Spells: The Monster Onstage; What Thomas Edison Knew; A Whale of a Story: The Father of Frankenstein, James Whale; Suture Self: Boris Karloff Not Bela Lugosi Sews up a Big Role; Bolt Upright: The Monster Walks; A Good Cast Is Worth Repeating: The Bride of Frankenstein; Going to the Extremes: Giving Them a Hand. Sidebar: I Was the Bride of Frankenstein, Elsa Lanchester; Sidebar: Friend? Gods and Monsters; Camping It Up; "I Made a Friend" Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder; When Weirds Collide: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein; Getting Hammered; The Animated Director: Tim Burton; Digging the Story: Andy Warhol and Kenneth Branagh; A Frankenstein Film Test: Can You Identify which of these Films Was; Never Made?; Part 3: The Monster of Them All; Herr Frankenstein Is Greatly Changed; A Brief Introduction to Sequential Art: Comic Book Trends; Frankenstein in the Funnies--Gary Larson, Calvin and Hobbes, Foxtrot; "Why I Like Frankenstein's Monster" by Dan Piraro; Sidebar: The Rocky Horror Show; Child's Play: Frankenstein in Children's Books; Frankenstein Enters the Atomic Age; Sidebar: Frankenstein vs. Dracula; A Frank Success: The Frankenstein Stamp; Frankenstein Action Figures; Collectors: Glut and Ackerman; A Monstrous Crossword; 13 Ways of Looking at Frankenstein; "You've Been Overexposed"--Frankenstein's Agent; A Frankenstein Quiz; Putting the Monster Behind You.

About the Author

Carol J. Adams has a master of divinity from Yale University. Best known for her groundbreaking The Sexual Politics of Meat, she is also the editor of Ecofeminism and the Sacred and Violence against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook (with Marie Fortune). All are published by Continuum. Adams lives outside Dallas, Texas. For more information, visit her web site at www.caroljadams.com.