Proximate monstrosity from Mandeville to Spenser

我的研究项目将考察各种中世纪和早期现代文本中怪物人类的表现，认为这些文本既揭示了人们对怪物流动边界的担忧，也试图缓解人们的担忧。我将建立在中世纪学者最近的工作基础上，他们试图扰乱那个时期文学中自我和他者之间的二分法，认为许多作家展示了一种微妙的怪物观点，并对他们自己的他者非常警惕。在建立了中世纪的背景之后，我将继续讨论在早期现代时期‘怪物种族’和怪物出生之间的重叠，认为在新教畸形学中对奇迹的表现允许在国内和国外、规范和偏离、古代和当代之间出现有趣的滑落。我的项目还将涉及对斯宾塞的仙女女王中怪物人类的表现的扩展考虑。我的这一系列研究--事实上，我的整个项目--将试图扰乱人与怪物、当代与古代、国内与国外之间的二分法，进而挑战欧洲基督徒自我的规范性。

My research project will examine the representation of monstrous humans in a variety of medieval and early moderntexts, arguing that these texts both reveal and seek to allay anxieties about the fluid boundaries of monstrosity. I will buildon recent work by medievalists who have sought to trouble the dichotomies between Self and Other in the period'sliterature, arguing that many writers demonstrate a nuanced view of monstrosity and are incredibly alert to their ownOtherness. Having established a medieval context, I will move on to discuss the overlap between 'monstrous races' andmonstrous births in the early modern period, arguing that the representation of the marvellous in Protestant teratologiesallows for interesting slippages between the domestic and foreign, normative and deviant, ancient and contemporary. Myproject will also involve an extended consideration of the representation of monstrous humans in Spenser's FaerieQueene. This strand of my research - and, indeed, my project in general - will seek to trouble the dichotomies betweenhuman and monster, contemporary and ancient, domestic and foreign and, by extension, challenge the normativity of theEuropean Christian Self.