Monstrous bodies/political monstrosities : in early modern Europe / edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers and Joan B. Landes.

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.

xi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Frontiers of the monstrous: perceiving national characters in early modern Europe / Peter Burke -- Lamentable, strange, and wonderful: headless monsters in the English revolution / David Cressy -- Time for monsters: monstrous births, propaganda, and the German reformation / R. Po-chia Hsia -- "Antichrist, the Babilon, the great dragon": Oliver Cromwell, Andrew Marvell, and the apocalyptic monstrous / Laura Lunger Knoppers -- Monstrous medicine / Marie-Hélène Huet -- Revolutionary anatomies / Joan B. Landes -- Signs of monstrosity: the rhetoric of description and the limits of allegory in Rabelais and Montaigne / Timothy Hampton -- Monstrosity and myth in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / David Armitage -- Anatomical readings in the early modern era / Andrew Curran.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-292) and index.