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Assembling the body/text
Frankenstein in new media
in Adapting Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein continues to be reborn through the dominant and/or cutting-edge technologies of each era. New media platforms disseminate and reassemble Shelley’s work for new and continuing audiences, and the themes of Shelley’s novel resonate with contemporary notions of textuality, hybrid identity, and the human body in the digital sphere. This chapter considers two new media adaptations of Frankenstein from different junctures in the history of new media: Shelley Jackson’s CD-ROM-based multimedia work Patchwork Girl, by Mary/Shelley & Herself (1995) and Dave Morris’s iPad app adaptation of Frankenstein (2012). The chapter investigates how these works explore and extend the themes and concerns of Shelley’s novel, using their own mediums of adaptation – reading formats that are assemblages which inherently destabilise the boundaries between humanity, technology and textuality – to comment on Shelley’s text as well as on notions of reading and authorship in the new media age.

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