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Monsters and their Meanings in Early Modern Culture - Mighty Magic (Hardcover)
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Monsters and their Meanings in Early Modern Culture - Mighty Magic (Hardcover)
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To call something 'monstrueux' in the mid-sixteenth century is,
more often than not, to wonder at its enormous size: it is to call
to mind something like a whale. By the late seventeenth
'monstrueux' is more likely to denote hidden intentions, unspoken
desires. Several shifts are at work in this word history, and in
what Othello calls the 'mighty magic' of monsters; these shifts can
be described in a number of ways. The clearest, and most
compelling, is the translation or 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.
This interdisciplinary study of monsters and their meanings
advances by way of a series of close readings supported by the
exploration of a wide range of texts and images, from many diverse
fields, which all concern themselves with illicit coupling,
unarranged marriages, generic hybridity, and the politics of
monstrosity. Engaging with recent, influential accounts of
monstrosity - from literary critical work (Huet, Greenblatt,
Thomson Burnett, Hampton), to histories of science and
'bio-politics' (Wilson, Ceard, Foucault, Daston and Park, Agamben)
- it focusses on the ways in which monsters give particular force,
colour, and shape to the imagination; the image at its centre is
the triangulated picture of Andromeda, Perseus and the monster,
approaching.
The centre of the book's gravity is French culture, but it also
explores Shakespeare, and Italian, German, and Latin culture, as
well as the ways in which the monstrous tales and images of
Antiquity were revived across the period, and survive into our own
times.
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