Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters

In this examination of the monster as cultural object, J. Jack Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of S…

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