Race, Nationalism and the State in British and American Modernism

The human monster. An ancient notion whose frame of reference is law . . . the monster’s field of appearance is a juridico-biological domain . . . what makes a human monster a monster is not just its exceptionality relative to the species form; it is the disturbance it brings to juridical regula...

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Auteur principal: Chu, Patricia E
Format: Livre
Langue:English
Publié: Cambridge University Press 2013
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Accès en ligne:https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35619
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Résumé:The human monster. An ancient notion whose frame of reference is law . . . the monster’s field of appearance is a juridico-biological domain . . . what makes a human monster a monster is not just its exceptionality relative to the species form; it is the disturbance it brings to juridical regularities (whether it is a question of marriage laws, canons of baptism, or rules of inheritance).