Introduction: Monstrous irruptions

Cultural Geographies

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 431-433

  Dixon, Deborah P ^a   Ruddick, Susan M ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 80054781634     PISSN: 14744740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474474011414619     Document Type: Editorial

References (14)

1. From L. Daston and K. Park, Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150-1750 (New York: Zone Books, 1998), p. 209.
2. See L. Knoppers and J.B. Landes, Monstrous Bodies: Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004).
3. See, for example, S. Clark, Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
4. A. Curran and P. Graille, 'The Faces of Eighteenth-Century Monstrosity', Eighteenth-Century Life, 21(2), 1997, pp. 1-15.
5. P.F. De Costa, 'The Understanding of Monsters at the Royal Society in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century', Endeavour, 24(1), 2000, pp. 34-9.
6. E. Donoghue, The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits (New York: Harvest Books, 2002).
7. and A.C. Kors, 'Monsters and the Problem of Naturalism in French Thought', Eighteenth-Century Life, 21(2), 1997, pp. 23-47.
8. M. Foucault, Abnormal. Lectures at the College de France (New York: Picador, 2003), pp. 55-6.
9. See, for example, D.P. Dixon, 'Creating the Semi-Living: On Politics, Aesthetics and the More-than-Human', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34(4), 2009, pp. 411-25.
10. and D.P. Dixon, 'The Blade and the Claw: Science, Art and the Lab-Borne Monster', Social and Cultural Geography, 9(6), 2008, pp. 601-11.
11. For example, E. Richards, 'A Political Anatomy of Monsters, Hopeful and Otherwise: Teratogeny, Transcendentalism, and Evolutionary Theorizing', Isis, 85(3), 1994, pp. 377-411.
12. and C.L. Smith, 'New Territories: Architecture and the Hopeful Monster', in P. Yoder and P. Kreuter (eds) Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil (Oxford: Inter-disciplinary Press, 2004), pp. 57-68.
13. G. Deleuze, 'Leibniz', Cours Vincennes, 15 April 1980,
14. D. Haraway, 'The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others', in L. Grossberg, C. Nelson, P.A. Treichler (eds) Cultural Studies (New York: Routledge, 1992), pp. 295-337, p. 322.