The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (910 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415916933 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Carla Mazzio and David Hillman are both Teaching Fellows in the Department of English at Harvard.
A significant contribution to ongoing work on gender, sexuality and the body.–Karen Newman, Brown UniversityThe Body in Parts expands the knowledge of this crucial period of history through the exploration of the social, symbolic, and scientific fragmentation of the body, This book will appeal to scholars interested in literature, history, art, and development of scientific knowledge in the early modern era.–Sixteenth Century Journal. Its claims for the importance of the body and its discourses for understanding the literary, scientific, political and religious culture of early modern Europe are persuasive and its range--literally from head to toe--and learning admirable. The book is helpfully o
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.