Monster Theory 1. Introduction: "A Marvel of Monsters" by Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel 2. "Beowulf, the Monsters and the Critics" by J.R.R. Tolkien 3. "A Measure of Man," from The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought by John Block Friedman 4. "The Nature of Horror," from The Philosophy of Horror by Noël Carroll 5.

"Rethinking the Canon: Prophets, Canons, and Promising Monsters" by Michael Camille 6. "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)," from Monster Theory: Reading Culture by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Allied Theories 7. "Introduction," from Orientalism by Edward Said 8. "Approaching Abjection," from Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva 9. "Parasites and Perverts: An Introduction to Gothic Monstrosity," from Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by J. Halberstam 10. "From Wonder to Error: A Genealogy of Freak Discourse in Modernity," from Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body by Rosemarie Garland Thomson.