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The Perfecting of Nature : Reforming Bodies in Antebellum Literature /

"The nineteenth century saw a marked change in how Americans viewed and understood the human corporal form. Cookbook writers drew from physiologists' studies of the nervous pathways between the stomach and the brain to promote their recipes as good for mental health. These new ways of unde...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Doty, Josh (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Transcendental self-culture and the horizons of bioplasticity -- Governance, race, and alimentary selfhood in Melville -- Sculpting hte body electric: exercise and self-fashioning in Walt Whitman -- Tricks of the blood: heredity and repair in Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. -- Coda: literature and neurological selfhood. 
520 |a "The nineteenth century saw a marked change in how Americans viewed and understood the human corporal form. Cookbook writers drew from physiologists' studies of the nervous pathways between the stomach and the brain to promote their recipes as good for mental health. These new ways of understanding the body reflect how Americans were beginning to see the body's constituent parts as interconnected. From the Transcendentalists' idealized concept of self to the rise of Darwinian Theory after the Civil War, the era and its writers redefined the human body as a deeply reactive and malleable object. In this book, Josh Doty explores the 'plasticity' of the antebellum American body-the body's ability to react and change from interior and exterior forces-and argues that literature helped to shape the cultural reception of these ideas"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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