Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe

Name: Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe
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ISBN: 9780801489013

ISBN-10: 0801489016

ISBN-13: 9780801489013

Edition: 2004

Authors: Laura Lunger Knoppers, Joan B. Landes

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Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction




Frontiers of the Monstrous: Perceiving National Characters in Early Modern Europe




Lamentable, Strange, and Wonderful: Headless Monsters in the English Revolution




A Time for Monsters: Monstrous Births, Propaganda, and the German Reformation




"The Antichrist, the Babilon, the dragon": Oliver Cromwell, Andrew Marvell, and the Apocalyptic Monstrous




Monstrous Medicine




Revolutionary Anatomies




Signs of Monstrosity: The Rhetoric of Description and the Limits of Allegory in Rabelais and Montaigne




Monstrosity and Myth in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein



Afterword: Anatomical Readings in the Early Modern Era



Notes


Contributors


Index