Keyword

monstrosity

Description: A concept in literature, religion, and cultural theory referring to the condition or representation of being monstrous and its social or symbolic significance.

Primary topic: Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (27%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/monstrosity

My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage

1994 · Susan Stryker · GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies · 891

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La Connaissance de la vie

2000 · Georges Canguilhem · 656

Monster Culture (Seven Theses)

2018 · Jeffrey Jerome Cohen · University of Minnesota Press eBooks · 551

Cyborg Urbanization: Complexity and Monstrosity in the Contemporary City

2005 · MATTHEW GANDY · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research · 469

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The Wonder of Data

2013 · Maggie MacLure · Culture Studies &#x2194 Critical Methodologies · 461

Congenital malformations in the past

1959 · Josef Warkany · Journal of Chronic Diseases · 431

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters

1998 · Maureen F. Curtin, Judith Halberstam · Tulsa Studies in Women s Literature · 425

TransMaterialities

2015 · Karen Barad · GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies · 416

The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought

1982 · Wendy Morgan, John Block Friedman · The Journal of Interdisciplinary History · 360

Monstrous Intimacies

2010 · Christina Sharpe · Duke University Press eBooks · 339

Monstrous Imagination.

1993 · Peter Connor, Marie-Helene Huet · MLN · 291

Monster Theory

1996 · University of Minnesota Press eBooks · 271

Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, And The Middle Ages

1999 · Jeffrey Jerome Cohen · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 239

Embryology of Exomphalos and Allied Malformations

1963 · B. Duhamel · Archives of Disease in Childhood · 232

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Strangers, Gods and Monsters: Interpreting Otherness

2002 · Richard Kearney · 189

Monsters of the Market

2011 · David McNally · BRILL eBooks · 188

In Frankenstein's shadow: myth, monstrosity, and nineteenth-century writing

1988 · Choice Reviews Online · 188

The Ashgate research companion to monsters and the monstrous

2012 · Choice Reviews Online · 151

The Handbook to Gothic literature

1998 · Choice Reviews Online · 141

L'événement monstre

1972 · Pierre Nora · Communications · 137

Dirt and desire: reconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990

2000 · Choice Reviews Online · 133

The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?

2009 · Nathan Coombs, Óscar Guardiola-Rivera · 130

Monsters and Monstrosity in Augustan Poetry

2015 · Dunstan Lowe · University of Michigan Press eBooks · 127

Monstrosities: Bodies And British Romanticism

2003 · Paul Youngquist · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 126

Dystopia

2016 · Gregory Claeys · Oxford University Press eBooks · 123

Works count: 7,412

Citation count: 21,120