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Monstrous Imagination,New Plunkett The Closing Piece Recalls TheWhat Woeful Maternal Fancy Produced Such A Monster? This Was Once The Question Asked When A Deformed Infant Was Born. From Classical Antiquity Through The Enlightenment, The Monstrous Child Bore Witness To The Fearsome Power Of The Mother'S Imagination. What Such A Notion Meant And How It Reappeared, Transformed, In The Romantic Period Are The Questions Explored In This Book, A Fascinating Study Of Theories Linking Imagination, Art, And Monstrous