Monstrous bodies/political monstrosities : in early modern Europe /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Knoppers, Laura Lunger, Landes, Joan B., 1946-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Subjects:	National characteristics, European > History. Monsters > Symbolic aspects > Europe > History. Monsters in literature. Europe > History > 1492-1648 > Psychological aspects. Europe > History > 1648-1789 > Psychological aspects.

Table of 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.