The following images show some of my notes on the above text, which was written by Abigail Lee Six and Hannah Thompson and incorporated into The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous. This selection concerns how the representation of monsters in fiction changed during the Gothic era. In summary, such beings went from being solely outwardly deformed but originally good and rejected by society, like in Frankenstein, to appearing normal but being morally wrong due to internal and/or external factors, as with Jekyll and Hyde and Dorian Gray, respectively. Such figures and the changes this type of literature experienced during that period may have been a result of a fear of loss of civilization as political, social, and sexual norms were challenged at the time, as suggested by the text.

From Hideous to Hedonist: The Changing Face of the Nineteenth-century Monster. Six, Abigail Lee & Thompson, Hannah. The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous, Mittman, Asa Simon & Dendle, Peter J. Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 2013.