Adapting Frankenstein. The Monster’s Eternal Lives in Popular Culture. Ed. Dennis R . Cutchins and Dennis R . Perry. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.

• Marion Gymnich

The bicentenary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus in 2018 was commemorated by conferences and performances throughout the world. These activities indicate that the interest in the themes addressed by Shelley and in her iconic characters certainly has not abated in the twenty-first century. In fact, the opposite seems to be true: the prototypical ‘mad scientist’ Frankenstein and his creature continue to be revisited, reimagined, and updated in the light of new social and scientific developments across different genres and media. The volume edited by Dennis R. Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry is a contribution to Frankenstein studies that covers an impressively wide range of adaptations of Shelley’s classic and that can only be warmly recommended to anyone interested in Frankenstein, or in adaptation studies in general for that matter.