Andrew Mangham is Professor of Victorian Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Reading, UK. He is the author of The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy, Dickens's Forensic Realism, and Violent Women and Sensation Fiction.

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Introduction 1
1 Monstrous Germs and Perpetual Formation 25
2 "Monster That I Am": Frankenstein's Filthy Creation 61
3 Arrested Developments and Aborted Archetypes 95
4 "Fantastic and Monkey-Like": Dickens's Curiosities 127
5 Recapitulations, Leaps, and Memories 159
6 Lucas Malet's "Faculty of Actualizing" 191
Coda: Modern Difference 227
Acknowledgments 241
Glossary 243
Notes 247
Bibliography 291
Index 319