Monstrous Imaginaries: The Legacy of Romanticism in Comics

by Maaheen Ahmed

Monsters seem inevitably linked to humans and not always as mere opposites. Maaheen Ahmed examines good monsters in comics to show how Romantic themes from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries persist in today's popular culture. Comics monsters, questioning the distinction between human and monster, self and other, are valuable conduits of Romantic inclinations.

Engaging with Romanticism and the many monsters created by Romantic writers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496825268
• ISBN13: 9781496825261
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"