Monstrous anatomies
Subtitle: literary and scientific imagination in Britain and Germany during the long nineteenth century
By: Raul Calzoni / Greta Perletti (eds.).
Series: Interfacing science, literature, and the humanities -- volume 10; V&R Academic; Interfacing science, literature, and the humanities -- v. 10.; V & R academic
Publisher: V&R Unipress
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Göttingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9783847104698; 9783847004691
Subjects: English literature; History and criticism; German literature; Monsters in literature; Abnormalities, Human, in literature; Literature and science
Other titles: Literary and scientific imagination in Britain and Germany during the long nineteenth century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The body of the monster between science and literature : an introduction; title: Deformity and monstrosity : Jean Paul between embryogenesis and the concept of life / Elisa Leonzio; title: Liminal figurations of the vampire in the German Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang and Romanticism / Raul Calzoni; title: A "mosaic work" : the poison mixer's body between monstrosity and deception / Lorella Bosco; title: Angels and monsters : on Stifter's Turmalin / Micaela Latini; title: Creating life artificially : Robert Hamerling's Homunculus / Anna Cappellotto; title: The monstrous gaze : exotic/subaltern/female. Omai in eighteenth-century Fin de Siecle London / Francesca Di Blasio; title: Has man "paid too dear a price for his empire"? : Monsters in Romantic-era literature / Sharon Ruston; title: Displaying the anomalous body : Wilkie Collins's Freak show / Flora de Giovanni; title: Dead pro tem : suspended animation and the monstrosity of death-counterfeits / Alessandra Violi; title: Nineteenth-century London as monstrous body / Laura Di Michele; title: "The thing". Unidentified monstrous objects in Victorian fiction / Maria Teresa Chialant; title: The dis-appearance of the body in an age of science : H.G. Wells's Invisible man / Francesca Guidotti; title: Unthinkable hybrids : the somatic unconscious of the transplanted body / Sara Damiani; title: Taming gender : how hermaphroditism became pseudo and gender fled the body / Daniela Crocetti; title: The survival of ancient monsters : Freud and Baubo / Michele Cometa.