TY  - GEN
T1  - Exceptional bodies in early modern culture : concepts of monstrosity before the advent of the normal
T2  - Monsters & marvels
A2  - Bondestam, Maja
LA  - English
PP  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1206239621
AB  - Drawing on a rich array of textual and visual primary sources-including medicine, satire, play script, dictionaries, natural philosophy, and texts on collecting wonders-this book provides a fresh perspective on monstrosity in early modern European culture. The essays explore how exceptional bodies challenged social, religious, sexual and natural structures and hierarchies in the sixteenth-, seventeenth- and early eighteenth centuries and contributed to its knowledge, virtue and emotional repertoire. Prodigious births, maternal imagination, hermaphrodites, collections of extraordinary things, powerful women, disabilities, controversial exercise, shapeshifting phenomena, and hybrids of different kinds are examined in a period before all deviances became normalized, in the sense, close and relative to a homogenous standard. The historicizing of exceptional bodies is central in the volume since it brings out the early modern culture and deepen our knowledge of its specific ways of conceptualizing singularities, rare examples, paradoxes, rules and conventions in nature and society.
CN  - GR825 .E833 2020
SN  - 9789048552375
SN  - 9048552370
KW  - Abnormalities, Human : Social aspects.
KW  - Monsters : Social aspects.
KW  - Abnormalities, Human, in literature.
KW  - Monsters in literature.
KW  - Abnormalities, Human.
KW  - Monsters.
KW  - Monstres : Aspect social.
KW  - Monstres dans la littérature.
KW  - Monstres.
KW  - HISTORY : Renaissance.
KW  - Abnormalities, Human
KW  - Abnormalities, Human, in literature
KW  - Abnormalities, Human : Social aspects
KW  - Monsters
KW  - Monsters in literature
KW  - early modern, culture, monstrosity, bodies, normalization.
KW  - Electronic book.
ER  -