Holy monsters, sacred grotesques : monstrosity and religion in Europe and the United States /: monstrosity and religion in Europe and the United States. (2018)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Holy monsters, sacred grotesques : monstrosity and religion in Europe and the United States /: monstrosity and religion in Europe and the United States. (2018)
- Main Title:
- Holy monsters, sacred grotesques : monstrosity and religion in Europe and the United States
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Michael E. Heyes.
- Editors:
- Heyes, Michael E
- Contents:
- Introduction: <span style="font-style:italic;">Ecce Monstra ; Michael E. Heyes; ; Part I: Inside the Monster, Looking Out; ; 1. The Woman’s Body, In-Between: The Holy and Monstrous Womb in Medieval Medicine and Religion; Minji Lee; 2. Miracles and Monsters: Gog and Magog, Alexander the Great, and Antichrist in the Apocalypse of the Catalan Atlas (1375); Thomas S. Franke; 3. Dressing Monstrous Men: <span style="font-style:italic;">Landsknechte Clothing in Some Early Modern Danish Church Wall Paintings; John Block Friedman; 4. <span style="font-style:italic;">Twelfth Night ’s “poor monster:” Viola/Cesario as Holy Grotesque; Cathleen McKague; 5. Grotesques in Sacred Spaces: The Cappella dei Priori and the Cappella del Quartiere di Leone X in the Palazzo Vecchio; Susanne Margarit McColeman; ; Part II: Monstrous Modernity; ; 6. Monstrous Sovereignty and the Corrupt Body Politic in <span style="font-style:italic;">Richard III and <span style="font-style:italic;">The Duchess of Malfi ; John W. Ellis-Etchison; 7. Reform and Romance: Catholic Monstrosity in Antebellum U.S. Fiction; AnaMaria Seglie; 8. Lovecraft’s Things: Sinister Souvenirs from Other Worlds; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock; 9. The Big Bad and the Big “Aha!”: Metamodern Monsters as Transformational Figures of Instability; Linda C. Ceriello; 10. From Revelation to Revolution: Explaining the Strange Success of Fox’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Sleepy Hollow ; Michael E. Heyes
- Publisher Details:
- Lanham : Lexington Books
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 001.944
Monsters -- Religious aspects
Monsters -- History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781498550772
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781498550765
- Notes:
- Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
- Access Usage:
- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.402767
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- 02_445.xml