Monster Theory

by Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome

• ISBN13: 9780816628551
• ISBN10: 0816628556
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Table of Contents

Preface: In a Time of Monsters	vii
I. Monster Theory
Monster Culture (Seven Theses)	3	(23)
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Beowulf as Palimpsest	26	(14)
Ruth Waterhouse
Monstrosity, Illegibility, Denegation: De Man, bp Nichol, and the Resistance to Postmodernism	40	(35)
David L. Clark
II. Monstrous Identity
The Odd Couple: Gargantua and Tom Thumb	75	(17)
Anne Lake Prescott
America's ``United Siamese Brothers'': Chang and Eng and Nineteenth-Century Ideologies of Democracy and Domesticity	92	(23)
Allison Pingree
Liberty, Equality, Monstrosity: Revolutionizing the Family in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	115	(28)
David A. Hedrich Hirsch
III. Monstrous Inquiry
``No Monsters at the Resurrection'': Inside Some Conjoined Twins	143	(25)
Stephen Pender
Representing the Monster: Cognition, Cripples, and Other Limp Parts in Montaigne's ``Des Boyteux''	168	(15)
Lawrence D. Kritzman
Hermaphrodites Newly Discovered: The Cultural Monsters of Sixteenth-Century France	183	(19)
Kathleen Perry Long
Anthropometamorphosis: John Bulwer's Monsters of Cosmetology and the Science of Culture	202	(23)
Mary Baine Campbell
IV. Monstrous History
Vampire Culture	225	(17)
Frank Grady
The Alien and Alienated as Unquiet Dead in the Sagas of the Icelanders	242	(22)
William Sayers
Unthinking the Monster: Twelfth-Century Responses to Saracen Alterity	264	(28)
Michael Uebel
Dinosaurs-R-Us: The (Un) Natural History of Jurassic Park	292	(17)
John O'Neill
Contributors	309	(3)
Index	312