The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Of Monkey Girls and a Hog-Faced Gentlewoman: Marvel in Fairy Tales, Fairgrounds and Cabinets of Curiosities
Secondary Title (i.e. Proceedings Title): Editions of this work: Periodical Title:Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies Publication Type:Journal Article Authors:Hoffman,Kathryn A.Editors: Publisher: Place of Publication: Publication Date:2005 Alternate Date (i.e. Conference Date): Volume:19 Issue:1 Start Page:67 End Page:85 Abstract: Descriptors/Keywords:French literature
1600-1699
Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine, comtesse d' (1650-1705)
'Babiole'
Monster
Monstrosity
fiction
conte de fées
treatment of anomalies
of human body
compared to art
pamphlet
relationship to freak show
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Annotation:There was a fascination of a hybrid Otherness in Early Modern culture; these objects of monstrosity were contrasted with other talents, such as musical or linguistic abilities. They were portrayed in different ways: as cultured, or as barbaric or wild. Hoffman describes how Early Modern collections shared the taste for excess, abundance, and the display of the unusual, the artistic, the fine, the rare, and the wonderful (J. Lozinsky).