Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most popular works in the history of western literature and has been adapted and reassembled in countless forms. The result today is a potentially infinite grid of intertexts which Professors Cutchins and Perry call the ‘Frankenstein network.’ This network enables a new way of reading adaptations in the light of other texts on the grid. Professors Cutchins and Perry will explore several of the adaptation-studies approaches found in their new book, Adapting Frankenstein, to explain the complex relationships between the various texts, disparate traditions, and dynamic media in which Frankenstein has been adapted.
