Monster Theory: Reading Culture

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ISBN-13: 9780816628544
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 11/1/1996
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.24 (w) x 9.26 (h) x 0.93 (d)

	Preface: In a Time of Monsters
1	Monster Culture (Seven Theses)	3
2	Beowulf as Palimpsest	26
3	Monstrosity, Illegibility, Denegation: De Man, bp Nichol, and the Resistance to Postmodernism	40
4	The Odd Couple: Gargantua and Tom Thumb	75
5	America's "United Siamese Brothers": Chang and Eng and Nineteenth-Century Ideologies of Democracy and Domesticity	92
6	Liberty, Equality, Monstrosity: Revolutionizing the Family in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	115
7	"No Monsters at the Resurrection": Inside Some Conjoined Twins	143
8	Representing the Monster: Cognition, Cripples, and Other Limp Parts in Montaigne's "Des Boyteux"	168
9	Hermaphrodites Newly Discovered: The Cultural Monsters of Sixteenth-Century France	183
10	Anthropometamorphosis: John Bulwer's Monsters of Cosmetology and the Science of Culture	202
11	Vampire Culture	225
12	The Alien and Alienated as Unquiet Dead in the Sagas of the Icelanders	242
13	Unthinking the Monster: Twelfth-Century Responses to Saracen Alterity	264
14	Dinosaurs-R-Us: The (Un)Natural History of Jurassic Park	292
	Contributors	309
	Index	312

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