University of Minnesota Press, 1996 Paper: 978-0-8166-2855-1 Library of Congress Classification PN56.M55M55 1996 Dewey Decimal Classification 809.93353
TOC
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Preface:In a Time of Monsters
I.
Monster Theory
1.
Monster Culture (Seven Theses)
Cohen,
Jeffrey Jerome
2.
Beowulf as Palimpsest
Waterhouse,
Ruth
3.
Monstrosity, Illegibility, Denegation: De Man, bp Nichol, and the Resistance to Postmodernism
Clark,
David L.
II.
Monstrous Identity
4.
The Odd Couple: Gargantua and Tom Thumb
Prescott,
Anne Lake
5.
America's “United Siamese Brothers”: Chang and Eng and Nineteenth-Century Ideologies of Democracy and Domesticity
Pingree,
Allison
6.
Liberty, Equality, Monstrosity: Revolutionizing the Family in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Hirsch,
David A. Hedrich
III.
Monstrous Inquiry
7.
“No Monsters at the Resurrection”: Inside Some Conjoined Twins
Pender,
Stephen
8.
Representing the Monster: Cognition, Cripples, and Other Limp Parts in Montaigne's “Des Boyteux”
Kritzman,
Lawrence D.
9.
Hermaphrodites Newly Discovered: The Cultural Monsters of Sixteenth-Century France
Long,
Kathleen Perry
10.
Anthropometamorphosis: John Bulwer's Monsters of Cosmetology and the Science of Culture
Campbell,
Mary Baine
IV.
Monstrous History
11.
Vampire Culture
Grady,
Frank
12.
The Alien and Alienated as Unquiet Dead in the Sagas of the Icelanders
Sayers,
William
13.
Unthinking the Monster: Twelfth-Century Responses to Saracen Alterity
Uebel,
Michael
14.
Dinosaurs-R-Us: The (Un)Natural History of Jurassic Park
