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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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