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Anxious Anatomy

By Stefani Engelstein

Anxious Anatomy

By Stefani Engelstein

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Examines the body in literature and science in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
342
Release Date:
2009-07-01
Publication Date:
2009-07-01
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
079147478X
ISBN13:
9780791474785
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
556 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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