Format:
316 S.
,
Ill.
ISBN:
9783847104698
,
3847104691
Series Statement:
Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities Band 10
Content:
The body of the monster between science and literature : an introduction -- Deformity and monstrosity : Jean Paul between embryogenesis and the concept of life / Elisa Leonzio -- LIminal figurations of the vampire in the German Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang and Romanticism / Raul Calzoni -- A "mosaic work" : the poison mixer's body between monstrosity and deception / Lorella Bosco -- Angels and monsters : on Stifter's Turmalin / Micaela Latini -- Creating life artificially : Robert Hamerling's Homunculus / Anna Cappellotto -- The monstrous gaze : exotic/subaltern/female. Omai in eighteenth-century Fin de Siecle London / Francesca Di Blasio -- Has man "paid too dear a price for his empire"? : Monsters in Romantic-era literature / Sharon Ruston -- Displaying the anomalous body : Wilkie Collins's Freak show / Flora de Giovanni -- Dead pro tem : suspended animation and the monstrosity of death-counterfeits / Alessandra Violi -- Nineteenth-century London as monstrous body / Laura Di Michele -- "The thing". Unidentified monstrous objects in Victorian fiction / Maria Teresa Chialant -- The dis-appearance of the body in an age of science : H.G. Wells's Invisible man / Francesca Guidotti -- Unthinkable hybrids : the somatic unconscious of the transplanted body / Sara Damiani -- Taming gender : how hermaphroditism became pseudo and gender fled the body / Daniela Crocetti -- The survival of ancient monsters : Freud and Baubo / Michele Cometa
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783847004691
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783737004695
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
German Studies
,
English Studies
Keywords:
Deutsch
;
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Das Monströse
;
Geschichte 1800-1899
Author information:
Calzoni, Raul
