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Unnatural Reproductions and Monstrosity Unnatural Reproductions and Monstrosity The Birth of the Monster in Literature, Film, and Media EDITED BY Andrea Wood and Brandy Schillace Copyright 2014 Cambria Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior permission of the publisher. Requests for permission should be directed to: [email protected], or mailed to: Cambria Press University Corporate Centre, 100 Corporate Parkway, Suite 128 Amherst, New York 14226, U.S.A. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Unnatural Reproductions and Monstrosity : the Birth of the Monster in Literature, Film, and Media / editors: Andrea Wood, PhD, Assistant Professor, Winona State University ; Brandy Schillace, PhD, Managing Editor, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, SAGES Fellow, Case Western Reserve University. pages cm ISBN 978-1-60497-880-3 (alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Monsters in literature. 2. Monsters in motion pictures. 3. Monsters in mass media. I. Wood, Andrea, editor. II. Schillace, Brandy, editor. PN56.M55U56 2014 809'.93375--dc23 2014022413 Table of Contents List of Figures................................................................ vii Introduction: Our Monstrous Ways Brandy Schillace and Andrea Wood................................. 1 Part 1: Theorizing Monstrous Genesis................................ 13 Chapter 1: Renaissance Demons and Posthuman Cyborgs Alistair Brown................................................... 15 Chapter 2: The Devil Made Me Do It Joanna Shearer................................................... 41 Chapter 3: Constructing the Vampire Michael Pickering................................................ 69 Chapter 4: Monsters That Matter Jesse Stommel.................................................... 89 Part 2: Repetition and Replication................................... 111 Chapter 5: Monstrosity, Multiplication, and Monument Lindsay Ann Reid.............................................. 113 Chapter 6: Death, Disease, and Discontent Emilie Taylor-Brown........................................... 133 Chapter 7: Serial Death and the Zombie Stephanie Boluk................................................ 159 Part 3: Dangerous Maternity and Monstrous Mothers........... 189 Chapter 8: Mothering Monsters K. A. Woytonik................................................. 191 Chapter 9: Hypersaurus Rex Randy Laist..................................................... 213 vi Unnatural Reproductions and Monstrosity Chapter 10: Monstrous Mothers and the Ultimate Sacrifice Danielle Lawson............................................... 235 Part 4: Innocence Lost................................................... 265 Chapter 11: “Children of the Night” Brandy Schillace.............................................. 267 Chapter 12: Monstrous Births and Monstrous Children in the Late Nineteenth Century Alison N. Crockford........................................... 295 Chapter 13: Gender, Genetic Engineering, and Ethics April D. Miller................................................ 327 Chapter 14: Failed Futurity Andrea Wood.................................................. 357 Works Cited................................................................. 375 Index.......................................................................... 405 About the Contributors.................................................... 419 List of Figures Figure 1: The writing on the wall in Left 4 Dead 2.................... 179 Figure 2: Left 4 Dead movie poster ...................................... 180 Figure 3: “You are dead”: Serial death in Left 4 Dead 2................ 180 Figure 4: Jets flying over Highway 10 in New Orleans (Left 4 Dead 2) .................................................................. 181 Figure 5: Devastation in Left 4 Dead .................................... 181 Figure 6: The “credits” roll at the end of the game .................... 182 Figure 7: An infant with congenital syphilis ........................... 290 Figure 8: Examples of dental malformations associated with congenital syphilis .............................................. 291 Unnatural Reproductions and Monstrosity
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