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Title: Monsters in English Literature: From the Romantic Age to the First World War

Monsters in English Literature: From the Romantic Age to the First World War

by Paul Goetsch (Author)
©2002 Monographs VIII, 348 Pages
English Studies
Series: Neue Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Volume 83

Summary

As representatives of the other, monsters express anxieties, fears, and wishes with regard to human self-definitions and relationships. They also articulate problems of modernization and the machine age and take on additional functions in various discourses. This historically oriented study examines the uses and functions of traditional and newly invented monsters in Romantic, Victorian, and early-modernist literature.

Details

Pages
VIII, 348
Publication Year
2002
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631393703
Language
English
Keywords
fiction fantasy monstrosity
Published
Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2002. VIII, 348 pp.
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Biographical notes

Paul Goetsch (Author)

The Author: Paul Goetsch, Professor of English at the University of Freiburg. He has published books on Dickens, Hardy, the English Novel in transition (1880-1910), modern English and American drama, the short story, and Canadian literary nationalism.

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