Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Editor: Anthony Purdy -- Introduction / Anthony Purdy -- 1. The Body Seen Through A Distorting Lens: Feminist Grotesque in The Art of Jana Sterbak and Louky Bersianik / Anthony Purdy -- 2. Patriarchal Bodies and Pre-Modern Subjects: Grotesque Realism and Domination in Garcia Marquez's El Otoño Del Patriarca / Anthony Purdy -- 3. Subjects of Discipline: The Child's Body in The Mid-Victorian School Novel / Anthony Purdy -- 4. Pets and Scientific Subjects: Constructions of The Animal Body in Victorian Anti-Vivisection Periodicals / Anthony Purdy -- 5. Beneath The Veil: The Revolution in Iranian Women's Writing / Anthony Purdy -- 6. Health as Metaphor: The Diminished Body in Rohinton Mistry's Such A Long Journey / Anthony Purdy -- 7. Writing The Abject: The Maternal Body in Bataille / Anthony Purdy -- 8. Bones of Contention: Post-Colonial Writing and The Cannibal' Question / Anthony Purdy -- 9. Artificial Eye/Artificial You: Getting Greenaway or Mything The Point? / Anthony Purdy.

Edited by David Bevan Series discontinued.

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