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Tables of Contents for Monster Theory
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface: In a Time of Monsters
vii
I. Monster Theory
Monster Culture (Seven Theses)
3
23
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Beowulf as Palimpsest
26
14
Ruth Waterhouse
Monstrosity, Illegibility, Denegation: De Man, bp Nichol, and the Resistance to Postmodernism
40
35
David L. Clark
II. Monstrous Identity
The Odd Couple: Gargantua and Tom Thumb
75
17
Anne Lake Prescott
America's ``United Siamese Brothers'': Chang and Eng and Nineteenth-Century Ideologies of Democracy and Domesticity
92
23
Allison Pingree
Liberty, Equality, Monstrosity: Revolutionizing the Family in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
115
28
David A. Hedrich Hirsch
III. Monstrous Inquiry
``No Monsters at the Resurrection'': Inside Some Conjoined Twins
143
25
Stephen Pender
Representing the Monster: Cognition, Cripples, and Other Limp Parts in Montaigne's ``Des Boyteux''
168
15
Lawrence D. Kritzman
Hermaphrodites Newly Discovered: The Cultural Monsters of Sixteenth-Century France
183
19
Kathleen Perry Long
Anthropometamorphosis: John Bulwer's Monsters of Cosmetology and the Science of Culture
202
23
Mary Baine Campbell
IV. Monstrous History
Vampire Culture
225
17
Frank Grady
The Alien and Alienated as Unquiet Dead in the Sagas of the Icelanders
242
22
William Sayers
Unthinking the Monster: Twelfth-Century Responses to Saracen Alterity
264
28
Michael Uebel
Dinosaurs-R-Us: The (Un) Natural History of Jurassic Park
292
17
John O'Neill
Contributors
309
3
Index
312