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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462243503321

Autore

Goss Erin <1976->

Titolo

Revealing bodies [[electronic resource] ] : anatomy, allegory, and the grounds of knowledge in the long eighteenth century / / Erin Goss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Bucknell University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-73350-1

1-61148-395-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Collana

Transits literature, thought & culture

Disciplina

820.9/3561

Soggetti

Human body in literature

Human body (Philosophy)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION. Revealing Bodies; CHAPTER 1. NAMING THE BODY; CHAPTER 2. BODIES WITHOUT BODIES: Burke's Corporeal Aesthetics; CHAPTER 3. WHAT IS CALLED CORPOREAL: Blake and the Body's Origin; CHAPTER 4. BODIES OF MEANING: Tighe and the Body's Apotheosis; CONCLUSION. The Body as Allegory; NOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sommario/riassunto

Revealing Bodies considers three thinkers not often read together in order to ask a question with continued relevance in the present: how is it that we claim to know the body? Reading their work in relation to their contemporary anatomical discourse as well as our own contemporary anatomical spectacle, the book explores a question with wide-ranging stakes both for those with specialized interest in eighteenth and nineteenth-century culture and with a broader interest in bodily representation.