Rough Beasts: The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800-2000

by Jack Fennell

Monsters and other supernatural malefactors disrupt the human world in distinct ways: werewolves and cunning beasts challenge the philosophical distinction between human and animal; demons offer deceptive pacts to prey upon our delusions of mastery over the world; capricious fairies claim dominion over the landscape and exact disproportionate revenge for our intrusions. When a monster appears, human history must halt until it departs.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789620341
• ISBN13: 9781789620344
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"