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Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain: On Difficult Middles /

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This study examines the monsters that haunt twelfth-century British texts, arguing that in these strange bodies are expressed fears and fantasies about community, identity and race during the period. Cohen finds the origins of these monsters in a contemporary obsession with blood, both the literal a...

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Main Author: Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Series:New Middle Ages.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of Medieval Europe.
Literary History.
Medieval Literature.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
British literature.
Literature > History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval.
World history.
Europe > History-476-1492.
Great Britain > History.
Electronic books.
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Summary:This study examines the monsters that haunt twelfth-century British texts, arguing that in these strange bodies are expressed fears and fantasies about community, identity and race during the period. Cohen finds the origins of these monsters in a contemporary obsession with blood, both the literal and metaphorical kind.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 256 pages)
ISBN:9781137086709
DOI:10.1007/978-1-137-08670-9