Monstrous anatomies : : literary and scientific imagination in Britain and Germany during the Long nineteenth century / / Raul Calzoni, Greta Perletti (eds.).

• Superior document: Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities, Volume 10
• TeilnehmendeR: Calzoni, Raul,; Perletti, Greta,
• Place / Publishing House: Gottingen, [Germany] : : V&R Unipress,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Interfacing science, literature, and the humanities ; Volume 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 pages) :; illustrations.

Table of Contents

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.