Author:
Hitchcock, Susan Tyler, author.
Note:Conception -- Birth and lineage -- Reception and revision -- The monster lives on -- Making more monsters -- A monster for modern times -- A brave new world of monsters -- The horror and the humor -- Monsters in the living room -- Taking the monster seriously -- The monster and his myth today.
Note:A lighthearted history of the Frankenstein myth traces its origins in an unwed teen mother's 1816 nightmare, evaluates the shifts in period morality and science that shaped the story and its various interpretations, and considers the myriad invocations of the tale in a variety of formats.
