Proximate monstrosity from Mandeville to Spenser

从曼德维尔到斯宾塞的近似怪物

• 批准号: 2272731
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2272731
• 关键词: Proximate; monstrosity; Mandeville; Spenser

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.

我的研究项目将研究各种中世纪和早期现代文本中的怪物人类的代表性，认为这些文本都揭示并寻求减轻对怪物的流动边界的焦虑。我将建立在中世纪主义者最近的工作上，他们试图在这一时期的文学中对自我和他者之间的二分法进行麻烦，认为许多作家表现出对怪物的微妙看法，并且对自己的自我性非常警惕。在建立了一个中世纪的背景下，我将继续讨论现代早期的“畸形种族”和畸形出生之间的重叠，认为新教畸形学中对奇妙的表现允许国内和国外，规范和越轨，古代和当代之间有趣的滑动。我的项目还将涉及斯宾塞的《仙后》中怪物人类的表现。我的这一系列研究--事实上，我的总体项目--将试图解决人类与怪物、现代与古代、国内与国外之间的二分法问题，并进而挑战欧洲基督徒自我的规范性。