Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century write by Veronica Kelly. This book was released on 1994-09-01. Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Twelve scholars from the fields of English, French, and German literature here examine the complex ways in which the human body becomes the privileged semiotic model through which eighteenth-century culture defines its political and conceptual centers. In making clear that the deployment of the body varies tremendously depending on what is meant by the 'human body', the essays draw on popular literature, poetics and aesthetics, garden architecture, physiognomy, beauty manuals, pornography and philosophy, as well as on canonical works in the genres of the novel and the drama.
Body and Text in the 18th Century
Body and Text in the 18th Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Body and Text in the 18th Century write by Veronica Kelly. This book was released on 1994. Body and Text in the 18th Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Body & Text in the Eighteenth Century
Body & Text in the Eighteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Body & Text in the Eighteenth Century write by Veronica Kelly. This book was released on 1994. Body & Text in the Eighteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholars from the fields of English, French, and German literature analyze the complex appearances of the human body at the centers and limits of the cultural production of meaning.
Of Body and Brush
Of Body and Brush - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Of Body and Brush write by Angela Zito. This book was released on 1997. Of Body and Brush available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Qianlong emperor, who dominated the religious and political life of eighteenth-century China, was in turn dominated by elaborate ritual prescriptions. These texts determined what he wore and ate, how he moved, and above all how he performed the yearly Grand Sacrifices. In Of Body and Brush, Angela Zito offers a stunningly original analysis of the way ritualizing power was produced jointly by the throne and the official literati who dictated these prescriptions. Forging a critical cultural historical method that challenges traditional categories of Chinese studies, Zito shows for the first time that in their performance, the ritual texts embodied, literally, the metaphysics upon which imperial power rested. By combining rule through the brush (the production of ritual texts) with rule through the body (mandated performance), the throne both exhibited its power and attempted to control resistance to it. Bridging Chinese history, anthropology, religion, and performance and cultural studies, Zito brings an important new perspective to the human sciences in general.
Epistolary Bodies
Epistolary Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Epistolary Bodies write by Elizabeth Cook. This book was released on 1996-07-01. Epistolary Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Informed by Jurgen Habermas's public sphere theory, this book studies the popular eighteenth-century genre of the epistolary narrative through readings of four works: Montesquieu's Lettres persanes (1721), Richardson's Clarissa (1749-50), Riccoboni's Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757), and Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer (1782).The author situates epistolary narratives in the contexts of eighteenth-century print culture: the rise of new models of readership and the newly influential role of the author; the model of contract derived from liberal political theory; and the techniques and aesthetics of mechanical reproduction. Epistolary authors used the genre to formulate a range of responses to a cultural anxiety about private energies and appetites, particularly those of women, as well as to legitimate their own authorial practices. Just as the social contract increasingly came to be seen as the organising instrument of public, civic relations in this period, the author argues that the epistolary novel serves to socialise and regulate the private subject as a citizen of the Republic of Letters.
