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The first ever book-length account of Spenser's monsters and their relation to the poetic imagination in the Renaissance.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: 'Complicated monsters head and tail': A primer in Spenser, monsters, and teratology
1. The Faerie Queene - A poem of monsters?
2. The monstrous in the early modern period
3. Historical perspectives on the monstrous
4. How to read monsters: A survey of Spenser studies, and teratology
Part II: Reading the monster: Taxonomy
5. Taxonomic considerations
6. Monsters and monstrous beings in The Faerie Queene
7. Monstrous animals (1): dragons
8. Monstrous animals (2): four-footed beasts
9. Human-animal composites
10. Giants
11. Monstrous humans
12. Automata
13. Taxonomy reconsidered
Part III: Making monsters: The monstrous imagination and the poet's autonomy in The Faerie Queene
14. The problem of the literary monster in the discourse of the poetic imagination
15. The monstrous and the literary heterocosm
16. In Phantastes's chamber
17. Animating the monstrous imagination in The Faerie Queene
18. Poetic creation: Spenser as Prometheus
19. The poet's autonomy and the use of the monstrous imagination
20. Interpreting the monstrous
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Maik Goth is a Research Assistant at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Summary
The first ever book-length account of Spenser's monsters and their relation to the poetic imagination in the Renaissance. -- .
