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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 and metaphorical kind.
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'Cohen is established as one of the prime researchers on monstrosity, masculinity and postcolonialism in medieval Britain, and the New Middle Ages Series as one of the most inventive in medieval studies...it makes for a riveting - entertaining as well as disconcerting - read about the important and neglected aftermath of 1066.' - TLS
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JEFFREY JEROME COHEN is Professor of English at George Washington University in Washington DC, USA.
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Book Title: Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain
Book Subtitle: On Difficult Middles
Authors: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08670-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6971-2Published: 06 June 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-08670-9Published: 30 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 256
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Medieval Literature, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Medieval Europe, Literary History, World History, Global and Transnational History