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Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups

Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups

Knoppers, Laura Lunger
Landes, Joan B.

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General European HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0801441765
ISBN13: 9780801441769
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Apr 15 2004
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.98 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.22
Language: English

Multi-disciplinary in approach and cross-European in scope, this richly illustrated book features new links between the political and the monstrous in the early modern period. Emphasizing the importance of the visual in the culture of the monstrous, the book presents a range of striking engravings, woodcuts, broadsides, and anatomical works. Some of the most respected scholars of early modern Europe explore monstrous bodies in descriptions of aberrant births and grotesque anatomies, appropriations of classical or biblical beasts and harlots, satire, myth, and science fiction.Canonical writings on monstrosity by Aristotle, Ambroise Paré, Rabelais, Montaigne, and Mary Shelley are juxtaposed to less familiar treatments by Calvin, Luther, and Andrew Marvell, among others. This volume challenges established narratives in which modern science and medicine, sustained by enlightened reason and secularization, progressively contain and even normalize all monsters. Instead, these essays stress the continual reinvention and polemical applications of the monstrous in the early modern period. Monsters emerge as a rich subject for not only the history of science, but also political and religious history, literary studies, visual studies, and the history of popular culture.

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