"How the idea of monstrosity, as "other" in critical research, was central to nineteenth-century scientific understandings of "natural" or "normal" biology"--
"How the idea of monstrosity, as "other" in critical research, was central to nineteenth-century scientific understandings of "natural" or "normal" biology"--
Andrew Mangham is Professor of Victorian Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Reading, UK. He is the author of The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy, Dickens’s Forensic Realism, and Violent Women and Sensation Fiction.
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Notes xi Introduction 1 1 Monstrous Germs and Perpetual Formation 25 2 "Monster That I Am": Frankenstein's Filthy Creation 61 3 Arrested Developments and Aborted Archetypes 95 4 "Fantastic and Monkey-Like": Dickens's Curiosities 127 5 Recapitulations, Leaps, and Memories 159 6 Lucas Malet's "Faculty of Actualizing" 191 Coda: Modern Difference 227 Acknowledgments 241 Glossary 243 Notes 247 Bibliography 291 Index 319
