Alessandra Grego is Associate Professor of English Literature at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. She has published "The Spectacle of Monstrosity in the Ballad of the Sad Cafè." Carson McCullers Centenary Collection, ed. by Carlos Dews and Sue B. Walker. 2022. "George Eliot’s Use of Scriptural Typology: Incarnation of Ideas," in Myths of Europe, ed. by Richard Littlejohns and Sara Soncini, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 123– 132. "The Dual Form of Daniel Deronda," Rivista di Studi Vittoriani, vol. 10 (2000): 93–113. With Gabriel Pihas and Daniel Seidel, translation of Orlando, Francesco. Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures, Yale University Press, 2006.

• List of AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Monstrous Author Disembodied Part I: Myth and Common Sense Chapter 1 Writing and TranslatingChapter 2 VanishingChapter 3 SurfacingPart II: Demythologising – Remythologising Chapter 4 KnightsChapter 5 DamselsChapter 6 Ordinary SinnersChapter 7 ParrhesiaConclusion: Truckling to the Smile of the World BibliographyIndex

Alessandra Grego is Associate Professor of English Literature at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. She has published "The Spectacle of Monstrosity in the Ballad of the Sad Cafè." Carson McCullers Centenary Collection, ed. by Carlos Dews and Sue B. Walker. 2022. "George Eliot’s Use of Scriptural Typology: Incarnation of Ideas," in Myths of Europe, ed. by Richard Littlejohns and Sara Soncini, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 123– 132. "The Dual Form of Daniel Deronda," Rivista di Studi Vittoriani, vol. 10 (2000): 93–113. With Gabriel Pihas and Daniel Seidel, translation of Orlando, Francesco. Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures, Yale University Press, 2006.

• List of AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Monstrous Author Disembodied Part I: Myth and Common Sense Chapter 1 Writing and TranslatingChapter 2 VanishingChapter 3 SurfacingPart II: Demythologising – Remythologising Chapter 4 KnightsChapter 5 DamselsChapter 6 Ordinary SinnersChapter 7 ParrhesiaConclusion: Truckling to the Smile of the World BibliographyIndex

Alessandra Grego is Associate Professor of English Literature at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. She has published "The Spectacle of Monstrosity in the Ballad of the Sad Cafè." Carson McCullers Centenary Collection, ed. by Carlos Dews and Sue B. Walker. 2022. "George Eliot’s Use of Scriptural Typology: Incarnation of Ideas," in Myths of Europe, ed. by Richard Littlejohns and Sara Soncini, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 123– 132. "The Dual Form of Daniel Deronda," Rivista di Studi Vittoriani, vol. 10 (2000): 93–113. With Gabriel Pihas and Daniel Seidel, translation of Orlando, Francesco. Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures, Yale University Press, 2006.

• List of AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Monstrous Author Disembodied Part I: Myth and Common Sense Chapter 1 Writing and TranslatingChapter 2 VanishingChapter 3 SurfacingPart II: Demythologising – Remythologising Chapter 4 KnightsChapter 5 DamselsChapter 6 Ordinary SinnersChapter 7 ParrhesiaConclusion: Truckling to the Smile of the World BibliographyIndex