Monsters and Their Meanings in Early Modern Culture: Mighty Magic

by Wes Williams

To call something 'monstrueux' in the mid-sixteenth century is, more often than not, to wonder at its enormous size: it is to call to mind something like a whale. By the late seventeenth 'monstrueux' is more likely to denote hidden intentions, unspoken desires. Several shifts are at work in
this word history, and in what Othello calls the 'mighty magic' of monsters; these shifts can be described in a number of ways. The clearest, and most compelling,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199577021
• ISBN13: 9780199577026
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"