The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous
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 Caribbean -- 2 The Unlucky, the Bad and the Ugly: Categories of Monstrosity from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment -- 3 Beauteous Beast: The Water Deity Mami Wata in Africa -- 4 Rejecting and Embracing the Monstrous in Ancient Greece and Rome -- 5 Early Modern Past to Postmodern Future: Changing Discourses of Japanese Monsters -- 6 On the Monstrous in the Islamic Visual Tradition -- 7 Human of the Heart: Pitiful Oni in Medieval Japan -- 8 The Maya "Cosmic Monster" as a Political and Religious Symbol -- 9 Monsters Lift the Veil: Chinese Animal Hybrids and Processes of Transformation -- 10 From Hideous to Hedonist: The Changing Face of the Nineteenth-century Monster -- 11 Centaurs, Satyrs, and Cynocephali: Medieval Scholarly Teratology and the Question of the Human -- 12 Invisible Monsters: Vision, Horror, and Contemporary Culture -- Part II: Critical Approaches to Monstrosity -- 13 Posthuman Teratology -- 14 Monstrous Sexuality: Variations on the Vagina Dentata -- 15 Postcolonial Monsters: A Conversation with Partha Mitter -- 16 Monstrous Gender: Geographies of Ambiguity -- 17 Monstrosity and Race in the Late Middle Ages -- 18 Hic sunt dracones: The Geography and Cartography of Monsters -- Conclusion: Monsters and the Twenty-first Century: The Preternatural in an Age of Scientific Consensus -- Postscript: The Promise of Monsters -- Bibliography -- Index
eBook, English, 2017
Taylor and Francis, Brookfield, 2017