Monster theory : reading culture /
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
Minneapolis, Minn. ; London : University of Minnesota Press,
c1996.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Monster culture (seven theses) / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Beowulf as Palimpsest / Ruth Waterhouse -- Monstrosity, illegibility, denegation: De Man, bp Nichol, and the resistance to Postmodernism / David L. Clark -- The odd couple: Gargantua and Tom Thumb / Anne Lake Prescott -- America's "united Siamese brothers" : Chang and Eng and Nineteenth-Century ideologies of democracy and domesticity / Allison Pingree -- Liberty, equality, monstrosity: revolutionizing the family in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / David A. Hedrich Hirsch -- "No monsters at the resurrection" : inside some conjoined twins / Stephen Pender -- Representing the monster: cognition, cripples, and other limp parts in Montaigne's "Des boyteux" / Lawrence D. Kritzman -- Hermaphrodites newly discovered: the cultural monsters of Sixteenth-Century France / Kathleen Perry Long -- Anthropometamorphosis: John Bulwer's Monsters of cosmetology and the Science of culture / Mary Baine Campbell -- Vampire culture / Frank Grady -- The alien and alienated as unquiet dead in the Sagas of the Icelanders / William Sayers -- Unthinking the monster: Twelfth-Century responses to Saracen Alterity / Michael Uebel -- Dinosaurs-R-Us: the (un)natural history of Jurassic Park / John O'Neill.
Monsters in literature.
Abnormalities, Human, in literature.
Grotesque in literature.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.