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Anxious anatomy : the conception of the human form in literary and naturalist discourse /

"In Anxious Anatomy, Stefani Engelstein reconstructs the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century human body to offer startling new readings of major works by Goethe, Blake, Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen. Engelstein links research on reproduction both...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Engelstein, Stefani, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008.
Colección:SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"In Anxious Anatomy, Stefani Engelstein reconstructs the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century human body to offer startling new readings of major works by Goethe, Blake, Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen. Engelstein links research on reproduction both to the ability of organisms such as hydra, snails, and newts to replace severed heads and gouged out eyes, and also to technical advances in battlefield amputation and artificial limbs. Readings of German and British literature, alongside natural history, surgery, aesthetics, and art, illuminate the importance of investigations into the body for emerging theories of human subjectivity, gender, volition, ethical behavior, and political organization. Engelstein also demonstrates how attempts to explain the structural characteristics of the body developed into biological justifications for ideologies of race, gender, and social hierarchies."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 326 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-314) and index.
ISBN:9780791474778
0791474771
9781435666863
1435666860