From Text, to Myth, to Meme: Penny Dreadful and Adaptation by Alison Lee, Frederick D. King

“…Challenging linear and genetic models of adaptation, Penny Dreadful transforms Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818, 1831), Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890, 1891), and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) into vehicles of cultural transmission: memes that have come to redefine the viewer’s relationship to Victorian literature and culture as a myth of modernity.…”
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