Chapter Title: Front Matter

Book Title: Monster Theory

Book Subtitle: Reading Culture
Book Editor(s): Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Published by: University of Minnesota Press

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MONSTER
THEORY

Reading Culture

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, editor

University of Minnesota Press

Minneapolis
London

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Copyright 1996 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota

An earlier version of Chapter 2 was first published in In Geardagum (June 1992),

reprinted by permission. Chapter 3 originally appeared in Daniel Fischlin, ed.,
Negation, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Textuality, copyright 1994 Kluwer
Academic Publishers, reprinted by permission.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Monster theory : reading culture / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, editor.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8166-2854-8 (hardcover). — ISBN 0-8166-2855-6 (pbk.)
1. Monsters in literature. 2. Abnormalities, Human, in
literature. 3. Grotesque in literature. 4. Difference (Psychology)
in literature. I. Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
PN56.M55M55 1996
809'.93353—dc20 96-21914

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