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Abstract
The virtual, hypertextual spaces of twenty-first-century interactive digital media are commonly considered to be uniquely modern phenomena. Adaptations of classic texts into this format are therefore seen as radical departures from the original texts and the experience of reading them. This chapter proposes, however, that the adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein into the new form of the interactive ‘digital book’ paradoxically marks a return to its central—yet often overlooked—concerns with higher-dimensional (hyper-)space, which Shelley explored both thematically and formally, and which were also involved in nineteenth-century approaches to reading. As well as examining these early forms of virtual space, this chapter proposes that the ‘digital book’ is itself an inherently gothic form that reveals the uncanny potential of new media in the twenty-first century.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Global Frankenstein |
Editors | Carol Margaret Davison, Marie Mulvey-Roberts |
Place of Publication | Cham, Switzerland |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Chapter | 15 |
Pages | 265-281 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319781426 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783319781419 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Publication series
Name | Studies in Global Science Fiction |
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Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Keywords
- science fiction
- Gothic fiction
- gothic
- digital technology
- virtual space
- virtual reality
- nineteenth century
- Romanticism--England
- narrative theory
- literary adaptation
- literary criticism
- literary studies
- literary history
- ghosts
- Fantasy fiction--History and criticism
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Digital Dickens: Adapting Ghost Stories for Digital Mobile Devices (Presentation at the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia Biennial Conference)
Kirstin Mills (Speaker)
24 Jan 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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iGothic: Spectral Technologies and the Digital Adaptation of Classic Gothic Literature (Presentation at the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia conference)
Kirstin Mills (Speaker)
27 Jan 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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Frankensteinian Forms: Gothic Literature, Transmedia Adaptation and the Digital Humanities (Invited Plenary talk for the International Society of Educational Leadership)
Kirstin Mills (Speaker)
22 Jan 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk