Approximate Bodies : Gender and Power in Early Modern Drama and Anatomy.

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Approximate Bodies' examines, in fascinating detail, the changing representation of the body in early modern drama and in the period's anatomical and gynaecological treatises.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Calbi, Maurizio
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2005.
Temas:
1500-1699
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) dans la littérature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Théâtre anglais > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Théâtre anglais > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique.
English drama
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan
Human body in literature
Power (Social sciences) in literature
Sex role in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on texts; Introduction; 1 'That body of hers': The secret, the specular, the spectacular in The Duchess of Malfi and anatomical discourses; 2 'Behind the back of life': Uncanny bodies and identities in The changeling; 3 'A meer choas': Moles, abject bodies and the economy of reproductive discourses; 4 'Strange flesh' and 'unshap't bodies': Monstrosity, hyperbolic masculinity and 'racial' difference; 5 'Un-pleasurable' detours: Figurations of desire and the body erotic; Notes.
  • BibliographyIndex.

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