Monsters and Monstrosity from the Fin de Siecle to the Millennium

Monsters and Monstrosity from the Fin de Siecle to the Millennium
Author: Sharla Hutchison
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2015-10-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 147662271X

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Zombies, vampires and ghosts feature prominently in nearly all forms of entertainment in the 21st century, including popular fiction, film, comics, television and computer games. But these creatures have been vital to the entertainment industry since the best-seller books of a century and half ago. Monsters don't just invade popular culture, they help sell popular culture. This collection of new essays covers 150 years of enduringly popular Gothic monsters who have shocked and horrified audiences in literature, film and comics. The contributors unearth forgotten monsters and reconsider familiar ones, examining the audience taboos and fears they embody.

Landscapes of Monstrosity

Landscapes of Monstrosity
Author: László Munteán
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2019-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1848883706

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Monstrosity

Monstrosity
Author: Laura Diaz de Arce
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2019-04-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781092880350

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Dear reader, When we were children, we dreamed of being heroes. We wanted to slay dragons and defeat the monsters that scared us. As we grew older, we were forced to try and find our monsters. We had been told they would be easy to spot. Monsters had too much teeth, too much fur, too much size. These were lies. We stopped wanting to be heroes. We started to want to be more, to be too much. We wanted, needed, more than the world could give us. We wanted more than what we were told we should be. We wanted to become monsters. Dear reader, I want three things for you as you read these stories. I hope you find a story that brings you joy. I hope you find a story that gives you some discomfort. Finally, I hope you find a story here that makes you too much, that makes you just a little bit monstrous. May you be enthralled and entertained by my accounts of monsters... and may these stories help you wake up the monster inside.

Monstrosity

Monstrosity
Author: Laura Diaz de Arce
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2020-12
Genre:
ISBN:

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Dear reader, When we were children, we dreamed of being heroes. We wanted to slay dragons and defeat the monsters that scared us. As we grew older, we were forced to try and find our monsters. We had been told they would be easy to spot. Monsters had too much teeth, too much fur, too much size. These were lies. We stopped wanting to be heroes. We started to want to be more, to be too much. We wanted, needed, more than the world could give us. We wanted more than what we were told we should be. We wanted to become monsters. Dear reader, I want three things for you as you read these stories. I hope you find a story that brings you joy. I hope you find a story that gives you some discomfort. Finally, I hope you find a story here that makes you too much, that makes you just a little bit monstrous. May you be enthralled and entertained by my accounts of monsters... and may these stories help you wake up the monster inside. This is the clear print edition of Monstrosity, with a 14pt font size for easier reading.

Monstrosity

Monstrosity
Author: Laura Diaz de Arce
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2020-12-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781034001225

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Dear reader, When we were children, we dreamed of being heroes. We wanted to slay dragons and defeat the monsters that scared us. As we grew older, we were forced to try and find our monsters. We had been told they would be easy to spot. Monsters had too much teeth, too much fur, too much size. These were lies. We stopped wanting to be heroes. We started to want to be more, to be too much. We wanted, needed, more than the world could give us. We wanted more than what we were told we should be. We wanted to become monsters. Dear reader, I want three things for you as you read these stories. I hope you find a story that brings you joy. I hope you find a story that gives you some discomfort. Finally, I hope you find a story here that makes you too much, that makes you just a little bit monstrous. May you be enthralled and entertained by my accounts of monsters, and may these stories help you wake up the monster inside. This is the large print edition of Monstrosity, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.

De Monstris

De Monstris
Author: David A. Fernández
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780772761255

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Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle

Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle
Author: Emily Alder
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2020-01-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030326527

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This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siècle, and examines weird fiction by British writers who preceded and influenced H. P. Lovecraft, the most famous author of weird fiction. From laboratory experiments, thermodynamics, and Darwinian evolutionary theory to psychology, Theosophy, and the ‘new’ physics of atoms and forces, science illuminated supernatural realms with rational theories and practices. Changing scientific philosophies and questioning of traditional positivism produced new ways of knowing the world—fertile borderlands for fictional as well as real-world scientists to explore. Reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) as an inaugural weird tale, the author goes on to analyse stories by Arthur Machen, Edith Nesbit, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, E. and H. Heron, and Algernon Blackwood to show how this radical fantasy mode can be scientific, and how sciences themselves were often already weird.

Degeneration

Degeneration
Author: Max Simon Nordau
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 1086
Release: 2022-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Degeneration is a book by Max Nordau which was published in two volumes. Within this work, he attacks what he believed to be degenerate art and comments on the effects of a range of social phenomena of the period, such as rapid urbanization and its perceived effects on the human body. Nordau believed degeneration should be diagnosed as a mental illness because those who were deviant were sick and required therapy.