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The Study of Monsters in Sixteenth-Century France and England" (1981). Since then, the scholarly world has been awaiting the booklength version. What we have finally got is a work somewhat different from what has been widely expected. "Monsters", as such, do not figure in the title and occupy only a chapter of the book. This may be because other scholars have meanwhile produced fine studies of changing models of monstrosity -amongst books, one thinks of Dudley Wilson's Signs and Portents: Monstrous Births from the Middle Ages (1993) or Dennis Todd's Imagining Monsters: Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth-Century England (1995). But it is clearly chiefly because, over the course of time, Daston and Park have broadened their conception of the kind of work they wished to write. The gain is undoubtedly the reader's, since the resulting study, focusing on the history of "wonder" -that is, beliefs and sensibilities governing attitudes to the abnormal at large -is all the more ambitious, thought-provoking, and, in the main, highly successful. While too sophisticated to reduce their analysis to a single linear narrative, Daston and Park nevertheless believe that certain long-term change

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Author

Samuel B. Thielman

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0022-5061)

Published

1999

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)