The pathogenesis of fear / edited by Elizabeth Hollis Berry.

• TeilnehmendeR: Berry, Elizabeth Hollis, 1949-
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries 116.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 186 pages).

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.

Table of 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.