The Pathogenesis of Fear: Mapping the Margins of Monstrosity (At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, 116)

ISBN 10: 9004367349 / ISBN 13: 9789004367340

Published by Brill, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Pathogenesis of Fear: Mapping the Margins of Monstrosity (At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, 116)
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004367349
• ISBN 13: 9789004367340
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Elizabeth Hollis Berry, Ph.D. (1993), University of Alberta, has taught as a professor of English at different Canadian universities. Her publications include a monograph, several chapters in books, and articles about texts and theoretical contexts from the seventeenth century onwards.