David Hillman / Carla Mazzio (eds.)

The Body in Parts

Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe
Herausgeber: Hillman, David; Mazzio, Carla

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780415916943
• ISBN-10: 0415916941
• Artikelnr.: 21607514

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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