Wonders, marvels, and monsters in early modern culture / edited by Peter G. Platt.
1999
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Title
Wonders, marvels, and monsters in early modern culture / edited by Peter G. Platt.
Created/published
Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©1999.
Description
341 p. ; 25 cm
Associated name
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The aesthetics of the marvelous : the wondrous work of art in a wondorous 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
Rabelaisian (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 jeremiad in Restoration polemic / Margery Kingsley
The politics of the monstrous in Burke and Kant / William R. Musgrave
Fancy's images : wit, the sublime, and the rise of aestheticism / James Biester.
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
Rabelaisian (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 jeremiad in Restoration polemic / Margery Kingsley
The politics of the monstrous in Burke and Kant / William R. Musgrave
Fancy's images : wit, the sublime, and the rise of aestheticism / James Biester.
Call number
CB361 .W66 1999