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Introduction: Reading the Grotesque
through the Unnatural
Markku Salmela and Jarkko Toikkanen

1

Chapter 1. The Grotesque:
Concept and Characteristics
Irma Perttula

17

Chapter 2. Anamorphic Narrativity:
Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall in the
Renaissance Perspective
Markku Lehtimäki

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Chapter 3. Changing One’s Viewpoint on Nature:
The Grotesque and French Medical
Discourse in the Sixteenth Century
Mathilde Régent

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Chapter 4. Grotesque Knowledge in
Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year
Tommi Kakko

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Chapter 5. From the Naïve to the Unnatural:
Friedrich Schlegel’s Early Romantic
Notion of the Grotesque
Asko Nivala

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