We Are All Monsters
How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us
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- Hardcover
344 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2023
Summary
“Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?”
In We Are All Monsters, Andrew Mangham offers a fresh interpretation of this question uttered by Frankenstein’s creature in Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel. This expansive exploration reveals how nineteenth-century literature and science recast the monster as vital to the workings of nature and key to unlocking the knowledge of all life-forms and processes. Even as gothic literature an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262047524 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262047527 |
| Author: | Andrew Mangham |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2023 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“In this clever study, Mangham […] explores how science and literature changed understandings of human difference during the 19th century. […]There’s as much science on offer as there is literary criticism, and Mangham proves he’s more than up to the challenge of teasing out the surprising overlap between the disciplines […]The result is a fascinating marriage of scientific history and literary analysis.”
—Publishers Weekly
About The Author
Andrew Mangham
Andrew Mangham is Professor of Victorian Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Reading, UK. He is the author of The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy, Dickens’s Forensic Realism, and Violent Women and Sensation Fiction.
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