FRANKENSTEIN: THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED YEARS (REEL ART PRESS)

Celebrating the two hundredth birthday of Frankenstein, this book traces in colourful and engaging ways, the journey of Shelley's Frankenstein from limited edition literature to the bloodstream of contemporary culture. It includes new research on the novel's origins, and a facsimile reprint of the earliest-known manuscript version of the creation scene; visual material on adaptations for the stage, in magazines, on playbills, in prints and in book publications of the nineteenth century; and visual essays on many of the film versions and their inspirations in the history of art as well as Frankenstein in popular culture - on posters, advertisements, packaging, in comics and graphic novels.