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We are all monsters : how deviant organisms came to define us / Andrew Mangham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mangham, Andrew, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abnormalities, Human, in literature.
- Monsters in literature.
- Grotesque in literature.
- Literature and science.
- Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "How the idea of monstrosity, as "other" in critical research, was central to nineteenth-century scientific understandings of "natural" or "normal" biology"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Monstrous germs and perpetual formation
- "Monster that I am" : Frankenstein's filthy creation
- Arrested developments and aborted archetypes
- "Fantastic and monkey-like" : Dickens's curiosities
- Recapitulations, leaps, and memories
- Lucas Malet's "faculty of actualising"
- Coda: Modern difference.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Mangham, Andrew, 1979- We are all monsters
- ISBN:
- 9780262372466
- 9780262372473
- 0-262-37246-0
- 0-262-37247-9
- OCLC:
- 1369658014
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