Monstrous anatomies : : literary and scientific imagination in Britain and Germany during the Long nineteenth century / / Raul Calzoni, Greta Perletti (eds.).
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Superior document: | Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities, Volume 10 |
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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. |
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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.