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About the Author
Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger is the curator of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at The New York Public Library. She co-curated Shelley's Ghost: The Afterlife of a Poet and Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era; she wrote the companion volume of the same title for the latter exhibition. She holds a PhD from New York University and lives in New York.
Reviews
It's Alive!, sumptuously illustrated in color with rare images of treasures from public and private collections, is a feast for the eye and mind. Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger's hugely enjoyable, witty, thoughtful commentary, underpinned by extensive scholarship, expertly guides us though the labyrinths of this visual treat, tracing the history of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from its beginnings to its becoming a universal meme. She takes us through antecedents of Frankenstein in eighteenth-century scientific experiments and Gothic terror tales, its genesis, making and publication, and (a special strength of the exhibition) its afterlife in nineteenth-century melodrama, Hollywood movies, posters, comic books, cartoons, and illustrations. It's Alive! showed me much and taught me much. Those lucky enough to see the Morgan Library Exhibition will treasure It's Alive! as a permanent souvenir; the rest of us will treasure it as the nearest thing to being there. It is all set to be a beautiful reference book and teaching resource. Mary Shelley would have been amazed!-Nora Crook, Professor Emerita, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Editor of Frankenstein, and General Editor of Mary Shelley's novels.
Book Information
ISBN 9781911282419
Author Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger
Format Hardback
Page Count 336
Imprint D Giles Ltd
Publisher D Giles Ltd