Monsters and Their Meanings in Early Modern Culture

Monsters and Their Meanings in Early Modern Culture
Author: Wes Williams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2011
Genre: Art, European
ISBN: 9780191728662

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Wes Williams explores the place of monsters in the early modern imagination, charting the migration of the monstrous from natural history to moral philosophy, from descriptions of creatures found in the external world to the drama of human motivation, of sexual and political identity.


Monsters and Their Meanings in Early Modern Culture
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Wes Williams
Categories: Art, European
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher:

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Wes Williams explores the place of monsters in the early modern imagination, charting the migration of the monstrous from natural history to moral philosophy, f
Wonders, Marvels, and Monsters in Early Modern Culture
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Peter G. Platt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: University of Delaware Press

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""The marvelous follows us always" - or so the Italian philosopher Francesco Patrizi asserted in 1587. The essays in this book collectively make the case that t
Monsters and their Meanings in Early Modern Culture
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Wes Williams
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-26 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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To call something 'monstrueux' in the mid-sixteenth century is, more often than not, to wonder at its enormous size: it is to call to mind something like a whal
Monsters and Their Meanings in Early Modern Culture
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: Wes Williams
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-26 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Wes Williams explores the place of monsters in the early modern imagination, charting the migration of the monstrous from natural history to moral philosophy, f
Constructing Monsters in Shakespeare's Drama and Early Modern Culture
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Mark Thornton Burnett
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-10-28 - Publisher: Springer

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Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture argues for the crucial place of the 'monster' in the early modern imagination. Burnett t