The Body in Parts

Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe

David Hillman, Carla Mazzio (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

376 Seiten

1997
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-91694-3 (ISBN)

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Examines how the body - its organs, limbs, viscera - was represented in literature and culture of early modern Europe. The text asks why 16th and 17th century medical, religious, and literary texts portray the body part by part, rather than as an entity and what this tells of society at the time.

An examination of how the body--its organs, limbs, and viscera--were represented in the literature and culture of early modern Europe. This provocative volume demonstrates, the symbolism of body parts challenge our assumptions about "the body" as a fundamental Renaissance image of self, society, and nation.

Carla Mazzio and David Hillman are both Teaching Fellows in the Department of English at Harvard.

I. Introduction: Individual Parts I. Subjecting the Part 2. Members Only 3. Out of Joint 4. Sins of the Tongue 5. Visceral Knowledge 6. Nervous Tension II. Sexing the Part 7. Is the Fundament a Grave? 8. Missing the Breast 9. The Rediscovery of the Clitoris 10. Taming the Basilisk III. Divining the Part II. Mutilation and Meaning 12. Fables of the Belly in Early Modern England 13. Sacred Heart and Secular Brain 14. God's handy worke IV. Parting Words 15. Footnotes

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Anatomie / Neuroanatomie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-91694-1 / 0415916941
ISBN-13	978-0-415-91694-3 / 9780415916943
Zustand	Neuware