The pathogenesis of fear edited by Elizabeth Hollis Berry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berry, Elizabeth Hollis, 1949- editor.

Series:

At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries 116.

Interface/probing the boundaries ; volume 116

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fear.

Fear in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 186 pages).

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

The Pathogenesis of Fear gathers together diverse conversations about cultural constructions of the monstrous. Interdisciplinary essays map the margins of monstrosity as follows: the cannibalistic paradox in Kleist’s late-Romantic Penthesilea ; intersections of the monstrous-feminine and the new Victorian psycho-physiology of consciousness in George Eliot’s early novels; the monster-formed citizens of Dickensian and later dystopias; the killing of African Americans targeted as monstrous entities in US cities; the post-human anguish of a television zombie-world; the monstrous mutilations of a Spanish horror film; psychosocial aberration in Martin Millar’s werewolf fiction; the demonization of the Other on the war-torn streets of Ireland; Derridean devouring sovereignty. Discursively correlated with different categories of body and mind, monstrosity, these essays argue, persists in taking many forms. Contributors are Elizabeth Hollis Berry, Niculae Gheran, Sarah Harris, Fiona Harris-Ramsby and Mubarak Muhammad, Michaela Marková, Kimberley McMahon Coleman, Judith Rahn, Cindy Smith and Marita Vyrgioti.

Contents:

Front Matter

Notes on Contributors

Introduction / Elizabeth Hollis Berry

Subjectivity and (Ab)use of Power

Devotion, Divergence and Desire: Anthropophagy as a Means of Cultural Formation / Judith Rahn

Devouring: Jacques Derrida and the Deconstruction of Sovereignty / Marita Vyrgioti

The Monster Factory: Monsterisation of Characters in Dystopias / Niculae Liviu Gheran

‘She could devour him if she wanted to’: Hunger, Scopophilia, and Power in The Skin I Live In / Sarah D. Harris

Warning! Monster Metaphors and the Urban Black Body / Fiona Harris-Ramsby and Mubarak Muhammad

Agency and Selfdom

Victorian Psychology, Monstrous Maidens, and George Eliot / Elizabeth Hollis Berry

(De)construction of the Monstrous in Contemporary Northern Irish Troubles Fiction / Michaela Marková

Adolescence as Battleground for Identity Formation: Martin Millar’s Wolf Girl Novels / Kimberley McMahon-Coleman

In the Flesh and the Administration of Posthuman Anguish / Cindy Smith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

90-04-38809-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004388093 DOI