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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
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French literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism
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French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism
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Monsters in literature.
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European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
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European literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism
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Science -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
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Science -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
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Art, European -- 16th century -- Themes, motives
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Art, European -- 17th century -- Themes, motives
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Monsters in art.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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Art, European -- Themes, motives
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European literature
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European literature -- Renaissance
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French literature
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Monsters in art
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Monsters in literature
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Science
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Europe
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780199577026 |
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0199577021 |
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9780191617898 |
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019161789X |
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9780191728662 |
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0191728667 |
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