Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, 1818-2018

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Maria Parrino obtained her PhD in English Literature at the University of Bristol UK and is currently a full-time teacher of English Language and Literature in a Secondary School in Vicenza Italy. She is the author of a number of articles including Lorrida magnificenza del luogo. Gothic Aesthetics in Antonio Fogazzaros Malombra (2014); Signs for Speech. Language Learning in Frankenstein (2015); Crossing the Borders: Hospitality in Bram Stokers Dracula and Florence Marryats The Blood of the Vampire (2017); and Gothic and Earlier Painting: Nightmares and Premature Burials in Fuseli and Wiertz (2019).Alessandro Scarsella is Adjunct Professor at Ca Foscari University Italy. His main areas of research are bibliophilia the history of books illustration and comics and graphic novels. He is the Director of the Laboratory for Literary Study of Comics Italy and has collaborated with the Einaudi Dictionary of American Literature (2011). His most recent publications are Del mondo fuori. Ricerca del fantastico. Per la storia di un'idea letteraria (2016) and Il fantastico nel mondo latino. Ricezioni di un modo letterario tra Italia Spagna e Portogallo (2018).Michela Vanon Alliata is Associate Professor of English Literature at Ca Foscari University Italy. She is the author of many studies on the relationships between literature and the visual arts Gothic fiction English and American fiction and postcolonial literature. She has recently published Haunted Minds: Studies in the Gothic and Fantastic Imagination (2017) and has edited and translated J.S. Le Fanus Green Tea (2017). Her most recent publication is The Price of Suffering and the Value of Remembering: Patrick McGraths Trauma (2019). She is co-editor-in chief of the journal Annali di CaFoscari.