Disgust and Desire: The Paradox of the Monster

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I Searching for Monsters

How Ignorance Made a Monster, Or: Writing the History of Vlad the Impaler without the Use of Sources Leads to 20,000 Impaled Turks

Unveiling the Truth through Testimony: The Argentinean Dirty War

Fanatics and Absolutists: Communist Monsters in John le Carré’s Cold War Fiction

Part II Desiring the Monstrous

Queer Race Play: Kinky Sex and the Trauma of Racism

Absolute Beasts? Social Mechanics of Achieved Monstrosity

Part III Writing Monsters

Utopian Leprosy: Transforming Gender in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and History in the Strugatsky Brothers’ The Ugly Swans

Monstrosity and the Fantastic: The Threats and Promises of Monsters in Tommaso Landolfi’s Fiction

Part IV Gazing at Monsters

‘This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine’: Man's Monstrous Potential in The Tempest and Titus Andronicus

Paedophilic Productions and Gothic Performances: Contending with Monstrous Identity

Creeper Bogeyman: Cultural Narratives of Gay as Monstrous

Full Metal Abs: The Obscene Spartan Supplement of Liberal Democracy