description: What woeful maternal fancy produced such a monster? This was once the question asked when a deformed infant was born. From classical antiquity through to the Enlightenment, the monstrous child bore witness to the fearsome power of the mother's imagination. What such a notion meant and how it reappeared, transformed, in the Romantic period are the questions explored in this book, a study of theories linking imagination, art and monstrous progeny.
language: English
title: Monstrous Imagination
titlecomplete: Monstrous Imagination
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 19
publisher: Harvard University Press