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Author Williams, Wes

Title Monsters and their meanings in early modern culture : mighty magic / Wes Williams
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 344 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: 'Mighty magic' -- Rabelais's monsters: Andromeda, natural history, and romance -- 'Monstrueuses guerres': Ronsard, mythology, and the writing of war -- Montaigne's children: metaphor, medicine, and the imagination -- Corneille's Andromeda: painting, medicine, and the politics of spectacle -- Pascal's monsters: angels, beasts, and human being -- Racine's children: the end of the line -- Epilogue: Between testimony and hearsay
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-337) and index
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Subject French literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism
French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Monsters in literature.
European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
European literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Science -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Science -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Art, European -- 16th century -- Themes, motives
Art, European -- 17th century -- Themes, motives
Monsters in art.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Art, European -- Themes, motives
European literature
European literature -- Renaissance
French literature
Monsters in art
Monsters in literature
Science
Europe
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
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