The body in parts : fantasies of corporeality in early modern Europe / edited by David Hillman and Carla Mazzio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hillman, David (David A.)

Mazzio, Carla, 1965-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body in literature.

European literature--History and criticism.

European literature.

Literature and science--Europe.

Literature and science.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xxix, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1997.

Summary:

The Body in Parts examines how the body -- its organs, limbs, viscera -- were represented in the literature and culture of early modern Europe. Why did sixteenth and seventeenth century medical, religious, and literary texts portray the body part by part, rather than as an entity? And what does this view of the human body tell us about society's view of part and whole, of individual and universal in the early modern period? As this provocative volume demonstrates, the symbolics of body parts challenges our assumptions about "the body" as a fundamental Renaissance image of self, society, and nation.

The Body in Parts presents new work by some of the leading figures in Renaissance literature and culture: -- Nancy Vickers on corporeal fragments-- Peter Stallybrass on the foot-- Marjorie Gather on joints-- Stephen Greenblatt on bodily marking and mutilation-- Gail Kern Paster on the nervous system-- Michael Schoenfeldt on the belly-- Jeffrey Masten on the anus-- Katherine Park on the clitoris-- Kathryn Schwartz on the breast-- Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky on the eye

-- Katherine Rowe on the hands-- Scott Stevens on the heart and brain-- Carla Mazzio on the tongue-- David Hillman on the entrails.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415916933

0415916941

OCLC:

36215025