Monsters and the Poetic Imagination in the Faerie Queene: Most Ugly Shapes, and Horrible Aspects

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This monograph is the first comprehensive study of the monsters and monstrous beings in The Faerie Queene. It takes as its starting point Thomas Cooper's sixteenth-century definition of monstrum, which links the monstrous to the notion of the physically deformed, the violation of the rules of ...