Monstrous Imagination

Monstrous Imagination
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 0674586514
ISBN-13 : 9780674586512
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Book Synopsis Monstrous Imagination by : Marie-Hélène Huet

Download or read book Monstrous Imagination written by Marie-Hélène Huet and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What 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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