Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) is an epic romance
teeming with dragons, fantastic animals, giants, grotesque
human-animal composites, monstrous humans and other creatures. This
monograph is the first ever book-length account of Spenser's
monsters and their relation to the poetic imagination in the
Renaissance. It provides readers with an extended discussion of the
role monstrous beings play in Spenser's epic romance, and how they
are related to the Renaissance notions of the imagination and
poetic creation. This book first offers a taxonomic inventory of
the monstrous beings in The Faerie Queene, which analyses them
along systematic and anatomical parameters. It then reads monsters
and monstrous beings as signs interacting with the early modern
discourse on the autonomous poet, who creates a secondary nature
through the use of his transformative imagination and fashions
monsters as ciphers that need to be interpreted by the reader. -- .
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