Monstrous ImaginationWhat woeful maternal fancy produced such a monster? This was once the question asked when a deformed infant was born. From classical antiquity through to the Enlightenment, the monstrous child bore witness to the fearsome power of the mother's imagination. What such a notion meant and how it reappeared, transformed, in the Romantic period are the questions explored in this book, a study of theories linking imagination, art and monstrous progeny. |
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| Title | Monstrous Imagination ACLS Humanities E-Book Georgia Southern University, Jack N. and Monstrous Imagination, Marie Hélène Huet |
| Author | Marie Hélène Huet |
| Contributor | American Council of Learned Societies |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0674586514, 9780674586512 |
| Length | 316 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / General Literary Criticism / General Social Science / General |
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