Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by Jack Halberstam

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters

Jack Halberstam

232 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging dark informative slow-paced

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In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Jack Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of Shelley, Stevenson, Stoker, and Wilde to contempora...

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informative 83%
reflective 83%
dark 66%
challenging 50%
emotional 33%
funny 33%

Pace

slow 50%
medium 50%

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