Wonders, marvels, and monsters in early modern culture / edited by Peter G. Platt.

Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, [1999], ©1999.

341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes index and bibliographies.

The aesthetics of the marvelous: the wondrous work of art in a wondrous world / James V. Mirollo -- Pandora's crown: on wonder, imitation, and mechanism in Western art / David Summers -- Marvelous facts and miraculous evidence in early modern Europe / Lorraine Daston -- Introduction to marvelous possessions / Stephen Greenblatt -- Ralaisian (non)wonders and Renaissance polemics / Anne Lake Prescott -- Sexual dissonance: early modern scientific accounts of hermaphrodites / Kathleen Perry Long -- Who says "miracles are past"? Some Jacobean Marvels and the margins of the known / Dennis Kay -- The king's two monstrous bodies: John Bulwer and the English revolution / William E. Burns -- The true face of philosophy as magical object: the limits of wisdom and the constitution of the (super)natural in Montaigne's essays 1.26 and 1.27 / Margaret Spires -- "Come, let me clutch thee": Macbeth and the marvelous text / Tom Bishop -- Interpreting providence: the politics of Jermiad in restoration polemic / Margery Kingsley -- The politics of the monstrous in Burke and Kant / William R. Musgrave -- Fancy's images: wit, the sublime, and rise of aestheticism / James Biester.