Monstrous Imagination

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Harvard University Press, 1993 - 316 pàgines
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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Introduction
1
The Mothers Fancy
11
Metaphors of Procreation
125
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