Bodies of Information

Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop
Herausgeber: Mounsey, Chris; Booth, Stan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book encompasses Bioethical discussions on a wide range of descriptions of bodies in relation to their context, including literary analysis, sociology, criminology, anthropology, osteology and cultural studies to read a variety of types of artefacts, from the Romano-British period to Hip Hop.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780367360481
• ISBN-10: 0367360489
• Artikelnr.: 58313690

Autorenporträt

Chris Mounsey is Professor of eighteenth-century cultural studies at the University of Winchester. Stan Booth is an associate lecturer at the University of Winchester.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Bodies of Information Part I: The Unknown Body 1. Dis/ability
in Roman Dorset: An Integrated Osteobiography Approach 2. The Imagined
Emaciated Body in Late-Medieval English Memorial Sculpture 3. Hideous and
Mutilated: The Wedded Body in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales 4:
Prosthetic Pomp: The Significance of Samuel Foote's Amputation to His
Performance in The Nabob Part II: The General Body 5. Violence and the
Marked Body: (In)Visible Trauma in London During the Long Eighteenth
Century 6. Teacher of Right: Rousseau at the Limits of the State 7. A
"Profession" of Apology: Criminal Doctors or Medical Negligence and the
Fuzzy Boundaries of Justice 8. Precarious Health: Thomas Beddoes's
Pneumatic Therapy Part III: The Particular Body 9. The Spector of the
Singular Body in Frankenstein: Difference and Reparation 10. The Infinite
Variety of La Casati 11. "The Vagabond Venus": Cesare Lombroso Colonizes
Tattoos 12. A Question of Objectivity?: Reading Nicki Minaj's VariAble Body