Preface: In a Time of Monsters vii
I. Monster Theory
1. Monster Culture (Seven Theses)
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 3
2. Beowulf as Palimpsest
Ruth Waterhouse 26
3. Monstrosity, Illegibility, Denegation: De Man, bp Nichol, and the Resistance to Postmodernism
David L. Clark 40
II. Monstrous Identity
4. The Odd Couple: Gargantua and Tom Thumb
Anne Lake Prescott 75
5. America's "United Siamese Brothers": Chang and Eng and Nineteenth-Century Ideologies of Democracy and Domesticity
Allison Pingree 92
6. Liberty, Equality, Monstrosity: Revolutionizing the Family in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
David A. Hedrich Hirsch 115
III. Monstrous Inquiry
7. "No Monsters at the Resurrection": Inside Some Conjoined Twins
Stephen Pender 143
8. Representing the Monster: Cognition, Cripples, and Other Limp Parts in Montaigne's "Des Boyteux"
Lawrence D. Kritzman 168
9. Hermaphrodites Newly Discovered: The Cultural Monsters of Sixteenth-Century France
Kathleen Perry Long 183
10. Anthropometamorphosis: John Bulwer's Monsters of Cosmetology and the Science of Culture
Mary Baine Campbell 202
IV. Monstrous History
11. Vampire Culture
Frank Grady 225
12. The Alien and Alienated as Unquiet Dead in the Sagas of the Icelanders
William Sayers 242
13. Unthinking the Monster: Twelfth-Century Responses to Saracen Alterity
Michael Uebel 264
14. Dinosaurs-R-Us: The (Un)Natural History of Jurassic Park
John O'Neill 292
Contributors 309
Index
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