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

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Engelstein, Stefani, 1970-

Series:

• SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Science in literature.
• English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
• English literature.
• English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
• German literature--19th century--History and criticism.
• German literature.
• German literature--18th century--History and criticism.
• Human body in literature.
• Human reproduction in literature.
• Literature and science--Europe--History--18th century.
• Literature and science--Europe--History--19th century.
• Literature and science.
• History.
• Europe.

Physical Description:

xiv, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008]

Contents:

• Introduction: Resurrecting the Body 1
• Part 1 Replicability
• Chapter 1 Formative Drives 23
• Goethe's Monstrous Otto 26
• Monkeys, Humans, and Other Mammals 31
• Reproductive Eyes 39
• Metamorphology 48
• Elective Affinities, or, Chosen Correspondences 55
• Part 2 Integrity
• Chapter 2 "Natural" Reproduction and Reproducing Nature 61
• William Blake's Bodies 70
• Developing Embryology 78
• Regenerative Monsters: The Polypus 88
• Prolific Devourers in Blake 98
• Science and Conscience 106
• Chapter 3 Modular Bodies 113
• War Wounds 115
• Kleist's Aesthetic Appendages 127
• Bodies in Motion 132
• Disarming Knowledge 136
• Disarticulation 139
• Part 3 Purposiveness
• Chapter 4 Autonomous or Automata? 145
• Mutilations and Multiplication 145
• Hoffmann's Cyborgs 157
• Instrumentality or Bits and Pieces 171
• Chapter 5 Just Animals 179
• Animal Instinct and Mary Shelley 181
• Beauty and the Beast: Female Sexuality and Male Materiality 192
• Framing Justine 203
• The Pursuit of Happiness 206
• Part 4 Legibility
• Chapter 6 Visual Epistemology 221
• Reading Race 221
• Coloring in Austen 232.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-314) and index.

ISBN:

• 9780791474778
• 0791474771

OCLC:

174501239