Laura Lunger Knoppers is Professor of English and Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, The Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Constructing Cromwell: Ceremony, Portrait, and Print, 1645-1661 and Historicizing Milton: Spectacle, Poetry, and Power in Restoration England and the editor of Puritanism and Its Discontents. Joan B. Landes is Professor of Women's Studies and History at The Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France; Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (both from Cornell); and the editor of Feminism, the Public and the Private.

"Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe is more than just a further contribution to the growing historiographical monster industry, because it is a remarkable combination of fine scholarship and intellectual passion. Laura Lunger Knoppers and Joan B. Landes are to be commended for bringing together essays that admirably enrich our understanding of how monsters are represented in political, medical, and literary contexts. This ambitious book is a significant contribution to early modern social and cultural history."—Michael Hagner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Laura Lunger Knoppers is Professor of English and Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, The Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Constructing Cromwell: Ceremony, Portrait, and Print, 1645-1661 and Historicizing Milton: Spectacle, Poetry, and Power in Restoration England and the editor of Puritanism and Its Discontents. Joan B. Landes is Professor of Women's Studies and History at The Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France; Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (both from Cornell); and the editor of Feminism, the Public and the Private.

"Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe is more than just a further contribution to the growing historiographical monster industry, because it is a remarkable combination of fine scholarship and intellectual passion. Laura Lunger Knoppers and Joan B. Landes are to be commended for bringing together essays that admirably enrich our understanding of how monsters are represented in political, medical, and literary contexts. This ambitious book is a significant contribution to early modern social and cultural history."—Michael Hagner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Laura Lunger Knoppers is Professor of English and Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, The Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Constructing Cromwell: Ceremony, Portrait, and Print, 1645-1661 and Historicizing Milton: Spectacle, Poetry, and Power in Restoration England and the editor of Puritanism and Its Discontents. Joan B. Landes is Professor of Women's Studies and History at The Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France; Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (both from Cornell); and the editor of Feminism, the Public and the Private.

"Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe is more than just a further contribution to the growing historiographical monster industry, because it is a remarkable combination of fine scholarship and intellectual passion. Laura Lunger Knoppers and Joan B. Landes are to be commended for bringing together essays that admirably enrich our understanding of how monsters are represented in political, medical, and literary contexts. This ambitious book is a significant contribution to early modern social and cultural history."—Michael Hagner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland