Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-147) and index.
Contents:
6. Mermaids rationalized: evolutionary theory confronts the fantastic. 2. Mermaids conceived: hybrid goddesses and beasts in antiquity -- 3. Christian adaptations in the Romanesque to Baroque eras -- 4. Mermaid passions: obsessive fixation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art -- 5. Mermaids everywhere: postwar commercialization and trivialization -- 6. Mermaids rationalized: evolutionary theory confronts the fantastic.
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