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Wonders, marvels, and monsters in early modern culture
- Title
- Wonders, marvels, and monsters in early modern culture / edited by Peter G. Platt.
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c1999.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Platt, Peter G., 1961-
- Description
- 341 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The aesthetics of the marvelous: the wondrous work of art in a wondrous world / James V. Mirollo -- Pandora's crown: on wonder, imitation, and mechanism in Western art / David Summers -- Marvelous facts and miraculous evidence in early modern Europe / Lorraine Daston -- Introduction to marvelous possessions / Stephen Greenblatt -- Ralaisian (non)wonders and Renaissance polemics / Anne Lake Prescott -- Sexual dissonance: early modern scientific accounts of hermaphrodites / Kathleen Perry Long -- Who says "miracles are past"? Some Jacobean Marvels and the margins of the known / Dennis Kay -- The king's two monstrous bodies: John Bulwer and the English revolution / William E. Burns -- The true face of philosophy as magical object: the limits of wisdom and the constitution of the (super)natural in Montaigne's essays 1.26 and 1.27 / Margaret Spires -- "Come, let me clutch thee": Macbeth and the marvelous text / Tom Bishop -- Interpreting providence: the politics of Jermiad in restoration polemic / Margery Kingsley -- The politics of the monstrous in Burke and Kant / William R. Musgrave -- Fancy's images: wit, the sublime, and rise of aestheticism / James Biester.
- Call Number
- JFE 00-1627
- ISBN
- 0874136784 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99011686
- OCLC
- 40631787
- Title
- Wonders, marvels, and monsters in early modern culture / edited by Peter G. Platt.
- Imprint
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c1999.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Platt, Peter G., 1961-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 00-1627