Opening book details…
Can I read Anxious Anatomy: The Conception of the Human Form in Literary and Naturalist Discourse (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) on EtoBox?
Anxious Anatomy: The Conception of the Human Form in Literary and Naturalist Discourse (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) by Stefani B Engelstein is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Anxious Anatomy: The Conception of the Human Form in Literary and Naturalist Discourse (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) about?
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.Stefani Engelstein is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri.
Who reads Anxious Anatomy: The Conception of the Human Form in Literary and Naturalist Discourse (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Stefani B Engelstein
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780791474785
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Medical, Literary Criticism
More by Stefani B Engelstein
Browse all works by Stefani B Engelstein
Similar books
- Feminizing Venereal Disease : The Body of the Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse — Mary Spongberg (auth.) (1997)
- Lacan and Romanticism (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) — Daniela Garofalo and David Sigler (2019)
- Anxious Times: Medicine And Modernity In Nineteenth-century Britain (sci & Culture In The Nineteenth Century) — Amelia Bonea and Melissa Dickson and Sally Shuttleworth and Jennifer Wallis (2019)
- Liberty of the Imagination : Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States — Edward Cahill; ProQuest (Firm) (2012)
- Mapping The Victorian Social Body (suny Series, Studies In The Long Nineteenth Century) — Pamela K. Gilbert (2004)
- Medicine Is War: The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture (SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) — Lorenzo Servitje, 1983- (2021)