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
• 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&rsquo;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 &rsquo;s &ldquo;poor monster:&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s Things: Sinister Souvenirs from Other Worlds; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock; 9. The Big Bad and the Big &ldquo;Aha!&rdquo;: Metamodern Monsters as Transformational Figures of Instability; Linda C. Ceriello; 10. From Revelation to Revolution: Explaining the Strange Success of Fox&rsquo;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
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