Pariah in the Desert

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Heroic Paradigm: Tradition and Innovation of the Pariah-Hero Chapter 2: Strangers on the Land: Immigrants, Neocolonialism and Monstrous Heroism Chapter 3: The Hollywood Invasion: Silent Film as a Portal to the Heroic Living Dead Chapter 4: Men and Women: Bourgeois Convention, the Female Abject and Heroic Gender Conflict Chapter 5: Inventive Nature: Science, Medicine, Technology and the Monstrous Post-Darwin Hero Chapter 6: Concluding with Pedagogy: Father and Teacher as Abject Hero Bibliography Index About the Author

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