Exceptional Bodies in Early Modern Culture : Concepts of Monstrosity Before the Advent of the Normal /

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Drawing on a rich array of textual and visual primary sources, including medicine, satires, play scripts, dictionaries, natural philosophy, and texts on collecting wonders, this book provides a fresh perspective on monstrosity in early modern European culture. The essays explore how exceptional bodi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Bondestam, Maja (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:Monsters and marvels.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Abnormalities, Human > Social aspects.
Monsters > Social aspects.
Abnormalities, Human, in literature.
Monsters in literature.
Abnormalities, Human.
Monsters.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Maja Bondestam
  • The moresca dance in Counter-Reformation Rome : court medicine and the moderation of exceptional bodies / Maria Kavvadia
  • Monsters and the maternal imagination : the 'First Vision' from Johann Remmelin's 1619 Catoptrum microcosmicum Triptych / Rosemary Moore
  • The optics of bodily deviance : Juan Ruiz de Alarcón's path to public office / Pablo García Piñar
  • 'The most deformed woman in France' : Marguerite de Valois's monstrous sexuality in the Divorce satyrique / Cecile Tresfels
  • Curious, useful and important : Bayle's 'hermaphrodites' as figures of theological inquiry / Parker Cotton
  • An education : Johannes Schefferus and the prodigious son of a fisherman / Maja Bondestam
  • Ambiguous and transitional bodies : stillbirth in Stockholm, 1691-1724 / Tove Paulsson Holmberg
  • Afterword / Kathleen Long.

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