| Description |
xi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-292) and index. |
| Contents |
Frontiers of the monstrous: perceiving national characters in early modern Europe / Peter Burke -- Lamentable, strange, and wonderful: headless monsters in the English revolution / David Cressy -- A time for monsters: monstrous births, propaganda, and the German reformation / R. Po-chia Hsia -- "The Antichrist, the Babilon, the great dragon": Oliver Cromwell, Andrew Marvell, and the apocalyptic monstrous / Laura Lunger Knoppers -- Monstrous medicine / Marie-Hélène Huet -- Revolutionary anatomies / Joan B. Landes -- Signs of monstrosity: the rhetoric of description and the limits of allegory in Rabelais and Montaigne / Timothy Hampton -- Monstrosity and myth in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / David Armitage -- Anatomical readings in the early modern era / Andrew Curran. |
| Subject |
Europe -- History -- 1492-1648 -- Psychological aspects.
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Europe. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1492-1648 |
| Subject |
Psychological aspects. |
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Europe -- History -- 1648-1789 -- Psychological aspects.
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| Chronological Term |
1648-1789 |
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National characteristics, European -- History.
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National characteristics, European. |
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Monsters -- Symbolic aspects -- Europe -- History.
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Monsters -- Symbolic aspects. |
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Monsters in literature.
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Monsters in literature. |
| Added Author |
Knoppers, Laura Lunger.
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Landes, Joan B., 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Monstrous bodies/political monstrosities in early modern Europe. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004 (OCoLC)607576790 |
| ISBN |
0801441765 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780801489013 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780801441769 cloth alkaline paper |
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0801489016 paperback alkaline paper |
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