Monstrosity “Overseas”? Civilisation, Trade, and Colonial Policy in Conrad’s African Tales

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: What Is a Monster? 1
4. 1. Ontology of the Monstrous
5. The Monster’s Mystique: Managing a State of Bionormative Liminality and Exception 19
6. Monsters and Human Solitude 35
7. Sew It up in the Sack and Merge It into Running Waters! Parricidium and Monstrosity in Roman Law 45
8. The Technological “Monstrum”: Her by Spike Jontze (2013) 77
9. 2. The Monster as a Literary Myth
10. Monstrosity and Alterity in H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau 91
11. Patriarchal Law and the Ethics and Aesthetics of Monstrosity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 115
12. Victorian Frankenstein: From Fiction to Science 131
13. Exposed: Dispossession and Androgyny in Contemporary British Fiction 141
14. 3. Comic and Grotesque Monstrosity
15. Who Is the Monster? Laughing at Friends and Foes 157
16. The Monster as a Denial of Difference: A Legal Approach to Kafka’s Metamorphosis 181
17. “The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters”: Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods 191
18. Southern Gothic: The Monster as Freak in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor 205
19. 4. Monstrosity and Migration
20. Kafka’s Trial and the EU Dublin Asylum System 221
21. Monstrosity “Overseas”? Civilisation, Trade, and Colonial Policy in Conrad’s African Tales 235
22. Harry Potter and Monstrous Diversity: The Brexit Case 255
23. Appendix
24. From Me, Martin, the Five-Pawed Bear, A Letter to My Judges 279
25. Monsters and Criminal Law 289
26. Contributors 293
27. Index 297