Beyond the filthy form: illustrating Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
This chapter analyses how a few illustrators have fully enriched a text which had been traditionally mistreated and simplified. Starting with Holst, we cross the Atlantic to Nino Carbé’s visual interpretation and the doppelgänger motif. Lynd Ward explores the socio-political consequences of Victor’s...
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| Formato: | capítulo de livro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
| Repositorio: | RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/32661 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319781419 https://hdl.handle.net/10578/32661 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Illustration Frankenstein Mary Shelley |
| Resumo: | This chapter analyses how a few illustrators have fully enriched a text which had been traditionally mistreated and simplified. Starting with Holst, we cross the Atlantic to Nino Carbé’s visual interpretation and the doppelgänger motif. Lynd Ward explores the socio-political consequences of Victor’s behaviour, while Everett Henry reflects on the creature as an unseen presence. In the same line, Moser reads the novel as a treatise on human nature. A feminist approach will be offered by Broutin, Huyette, and Odriozola, who dwell on the female daemon and the usurpation of the female body. Finally, we consider Wrightson and Grimly, and the steampunk aesthetic by Basic and Sumberac, all of them offering their most personal interpretation of the text by embracing Frankenstein as a universal myth. |
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