Contents -- Preface: In a Time of Monsters -- I. Monster Theory -- 1. Monster Culture (Seven Theses) -- 2. Beowulf as Palimpsest -- 3. Monstrosity, Illegibility, Denegation: De Man, bp Nichol, and the Resistance to Postmodernism -- II. Monstrous Identity -- 4. The Odd Couple: Gargantua and Tom Thumb -- 5. America's "United Siamese Brothers": Chang and Eng and Nineteenth-Century Ideologies of Democracy and Domesticity -- 6. Liberty, Equality, Monstrosity: Revolutionizing the Family in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- III. Monstrous Inquiry -- 7. "No Monsters at the Resurrection": Inside Some Conjoined Twins -- 8. Representing the Monster: Cognition, Cripples, and Other Limp Parts in Montaigne's "Des Boyteux" -- 9. Hermaphrodites Newly Discovered: The Cultural Monsters of Sixteenth-Century France -- 10. Anthropometamorphosis: John Bulwer's Monsters of Cosmetology and the Science of Culture -- IV. Monstrous History -- 11. Vampire Culture -- 12. The Alien and Alienated as Unquiet Dead in the Sagas of the Icelanders -- 13. Unthinking the Monster: Twelfth-Century Responses to Saracen Alterity -- 14. Dinosaurs-R-Us: The (Un)Natural History of Jurassic Park -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.