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Anxious Anatomy: The Conception of the Human Form in Literary and Naturalist Discourse (Suny series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) - Tapa blanda

Engelstein, Stefani

 
9780791474785: Anxious Anatomy: The Conception of the Human Form in Literary and Naturalist Discourse (Suny series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)
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ISBN 10: 079147478X ISBN 13: 9780791474785
Editorial: State University of New York Press, 2009

Sinopsis

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.

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Stefani Engelstein is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri.

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Editorial
State University of New York Press
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
079147478X
ISBN 13 
9780791474785
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
326
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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