Hosting the monster / edited by Holly Lynn Baumgartner, Roger Davis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baumgartner, Holly Lynn.

Davis, Roger, 1971-

Series:

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 52.

At the interface/Probing the boundaries, 1570-7113 ; v. 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monsters in literature.

English essays--20th century.

English essays.

English essays--21st century.

Physical Description:

258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008.

Contents:

Hosting the monster : introduction / Holly Lynn Baumgartner and Roger Davis

"I live in the weak and the wounded" : the monster of Brad Anderson's Session 9 / Duane W. Kight

The monster as a victim of war : the returning veteran in The best years of our lives / Amaya Muruzábal Muruzábal

Human monstrosity : rape, ambiguity and performance in Rosemary's baby / Lucy Fife

The monstrous and maternal in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Inderjit Grewal

The witch and the werewolf : rebirth and subjectivity in medieval verse / Hannah Priest

It's never the bass : opera's true transgressors sing soprano / Holly Lynn Baumgartner

Joseph Merrick and the concept of monstrosity in nineteenth century medical thought / Katherine Angell

Herculine Barbin : human error, criminality and the case of the monstrous hermaphrodite / Jessica Webb

Literary monsters : gender, genius and writing in Denis Diderot's "On women" and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Cecilia A. Feilla

Sweet, bloody vengeance : class, social stigma and servitude in the slasher genre / Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

It came from four-colour fiction : the effect of Cold War comic books on the fiction of Stephen King / David M. Kingsley

The monsters that failed to scare : the atypical reception of the 1930s horror films in Belgium / Liesbet Depauw

"A white illusion of a man" : snowman, survival and speculation in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake / Roger Davis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789042024861

9042024860

OCLC:

300151467