Add to ORKGThis dissertation focuses on the significance of monsters in early modern popular literature. The etymological roots of the word monster include “to demonstrate” and “to warn”: in the words of one broadsheet, monsters “ar lessons & scholynges for us all.” I examine representations of monsters in a body of largely unexamined texts, ranging from books of marvels to ‘ephemera’ such as broadsheets, pamphlets, newsbooks and play-pamphlets, and argue that the birth of a monster signals a crisis in the reproduction of social norms and institutions, from fashion edicts to the English revolution. Moreover, I argue that monsters\u27 deformities are transparent to the crimes they punish, and thus that monsters provide access to the specific details of...
Scholarly studies have established that the eighteenth and nineteenth-century English novel mixed co...
This dissertation argues that theodicy was a predominant concern of early modern English literary cu...
Anglo-Saxon scholars generally define monsters within very narrow parameters: monsters are beings th...
This dissertation focuses on the significance of monsters in early modern popular literature. The et...
The advent of print and specifically the pamphlet in the sixteenth-century created a new moment for ...
Degree Awarded: Ph.D. English Language and Literature. The Catholic University of AmericaThis disser...
This thesis examines representations of monstrosity in Old English literature. The literary studies...
This article argues that in Old English poetry a monster is a creature who inverts humanity so as to...
This thesis examines how the intersection of Renaissance humanist and Reformed Christian epistemolog...
This thesis will analyse the medieval monster tradition along gender lines and assess how the gender...
This thesis argues that in seventeenth century England, the tongue, or more specifically the female ...
This dissertation explores representations of monsters and the monstrous in nineteenth-century Briti...
My dissertation, titled Bloody, Strange, and Unnatural Women: Advertising on Early Modern English Ti...
Monsters as a category seem omnipresent in early modern natural philosophy, in what one might call a...
Monsters as a category seem omnipresent in early modern natural philosophy, in what one might call a...
Scholarly studies have established that the eighteenth and nineteenth-century English novel mixed co...
This dissertation argues that theodicy was a predominant concern of early modern English literary cu...
Anglo-Saxon scholars generally define monsters within very narrow parameters: monsters are beings th...
This dissertation focuses on the significance of monsters in early modern popular literature. The et...
The advent of print and specifically the pamphlet in the sixteenth-century created a new moment for ...
Degree Awarded: Ph.D. English Language and Literature. The Catholic University of AmericaThis disser...
This thesis examines representations of monstrosity in Old English literature. The literary studies...
This article argues that in Old English poetry a monster is a creature who inverts humanity so as to...
This thesis examines how the intersection of Renaissance humanist and Reformed Christian epistemolog...
This thesis will analyse the medieval monster tradition along gender lines and assess how the gender...
This thesis argues that in seventeenth century England, the tongue, or more specifically the female ...
This dissertation explores representations of monsters and the monstrous in nineteenth-century Briti...
My dissertation, titled Bloody, Strange, and Unnatural Women: Advertising on Early Modern English Ti...
Monsters as a category seem omnipresent in early modern natural philosophy, in what one might call a...
Monsters as a category seem omnipresent in early modern natural philosophy, in what one might call a...
Scholarly studies have established that the eighteenth and nineteenth-century English novel mixed co...
This dissertation argues that theodicy was a predominant concern of early modern English literary cu...
Anglo-Saxon scholars generally define monsters within very narrow parameters: monsters are beings th...