Monstrous women in comics / edited by Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody.

"Monsters seem to be everywhere these days, in popular shows on television, in award-winning novels, and again and again in Hollywood blockbusters. They are figures that lurk in the margins and so, by contrast, help to illuminate the center-the embodiment of abnormality that summons the definition o...

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Uniform Title:Horror and monstrosity studies series.
Other Authors: Langsdale, Samantha (Editor)
Coody, Elizabeth Rae (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020.
Series:Horror and monstrosity studies series.
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Physical Description:x, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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