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 missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction philosophy

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In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith 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 contempo...

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informative 80%
reflective 80%
dark 60%
challenging 40%
emotional 20%
funny 20%

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slow 40%

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