Beschreibung
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.
Autorenportrait
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.
