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Monsters in the mirror : literary reflections of mentally and physically deformed humanity in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Creator:

Bromley, Michele Joy

Abstract:

Monstrous beings, or distortions of nature, were a tangible object of fear in the medieval and early modern eras. Aristotle, as a precursor to the scientists and magical practitioners of the twelfth century or the barber-surgeons of the sixteenth century, understood monsters to be human or animal beings deformed by...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

-reflection and confession from terrified readers. This study explores the ways that Edmund Spenser uses