The Pathogenesis of Fear: Mapping the Margins of Monstrosity
Berry, Elizabeth Ann Hollis
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...