Monsters of our own making : the peculiar pleasures of fear
Print Book, English, 2007
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2007
xii, 441 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), music ; 24 cm
9780813191744, 0813191742
1062217414
Prologue
Introduction
Scaring
Here comes the bogeyman!
Reflection
Goya : Saturn devouring his child
'My father he ate me ... '
Reflection
The nymphaeum of the Emperor Tiberius
The polyp and the cyclops
The Devil's banquet
Reflection
The feast of Corpus Christi, 1996 : the patum of Berga, Catalonia
'Hoc est corpus'
'Now ... we can begin to feed'
'Terrors properly applied'
Lulling
Reflection
Caravaggio : the rest on the flight into Egypt
'Sing now mother ... what me shall befall'
'Herod the king, in his raging'
'And thou, oh nightengale'
Making mock
Reflection
Louis Desprez : the chimera
'In the genre of the monstrous'
Circe's swine : 'wizard and brute'
'All my business is my song'
'Fee, fie, fo, fum'
'Of the paltriness of things'
Reflection
Albert Eckhout : eight Brazilian portraits
Going bananas
Epilogue: 'Snip! snap! snip!'
Afterword
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
Originally published: No go the bogeyman. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999