Spider
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- Contents
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1 Some Basic Zoological Facts
2 Arachnophobia
3 Venom and Cold Intellect: The Spider and its Web in the European
Intellectual Tradition
4 The Femme Fatale and Eroticism
5 Oppressive Mothers, Dreams and Louise Bourgeois
6 Spiders in Art and Caricature
7 Myth and Folklore
8 Urban Legends
9 Spider Goes Hollywood
Timeline of the Spider
References
Select Bibliography
Associations and Websites
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
“In phobia terms, Reaktion’s terrific animal series has reached the king of beasts. Arachnophobia, the Miss Muffet syndrome, is ‘now counted among the most interesting human neuroses’. . . Not everyone has this antipathy to the 400 different types of spider . . . In this enjoyable (at least for some of us) monograph, the reader learns something new about this extraordinary creature.”
“Spider weaves biological facts and global traditions into a satisfying analysis of how arachnids capture the imagination.”
Biological Sciences: Natural History
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