Through a detailed unpacking of the castaway genre's appeal in English literature, Empire Islands forwards our understanding of the sociopsychology of British Empire. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower argues convincingly that by helping generations of readers to make sense of -- and perh…
Through a detailed unpacking of the castaway genre's appeal in English literature, Empire Islands forwards our understanding of the sociopsychology of British Empire. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower argues convincingly that by helping generations of readers to make sense of, and perhap…
Dragons, giants, and the monsters of learned discourse are rarely encountered in the Sagas of Icelanders, and therefore, the general teratological focus on physical monstrosity yields only limited results when applied to them. This, however, does not equal an absence of monstros…
Dragons, giants, and the monsters of learned discourse are rarely encountered in the Sagas of Icelanders, and therefore, the general teratological focus on physical monstrosity yields only limited results when applied to them. This, however, does not equal an absence of monstros…
Introduction -- A man's best friend is his monster: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Peter Schlemihl's Wondrous story or the Genesis of a queer Jewish outlaw -- Queer prosthetics or male tribadism in Kleist's On the puppet theater -- Queer echoes traversing great spaces: Roland Ba…
"Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that still resonate today. Queer theory has focused heavily on North American and contemporary contexts, but in this book Richard O. Block helps to expand that reach. Deftly combining t…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Impact of Monsters and Monster Studies -- Part I: History of Monstrosity -- 1 The Monstrous Carib…
