Monstrous Bodies/political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe - 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 Monstrous Bodies/political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe write by Laura Lunger Knoppers. This book was released on 2004. Monstrous Bodies/political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Multi-disciplinary in approach & cross-European in scope, this volume explores links between the political & the monstrous in Europe from the Renaissance to the 19th century. These essays stress the continual reinvention & polemical applications of the monstrous.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous
The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous - 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 The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous write by Asa Simon Mittman. This book was released on 2017-02-24. The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature, art history, religious studies, history, classics, and cultural and media studies. The companion will offer scholars and graduate students the first comprehensive and authoritative review of this emergent field.
The Body in History, Culture, and the Arts
The Body in History, Culture, and the Arts - 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 The Body in History, Culture, and the Arts write by Justyna Jajszczok. This book was released on 2019-03-27. The Body in History, Culture, and the Arts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The aim of this book is to explore the body in various historical contexts and to take it as a point of departure for broader historiographical projects. The chapters in the volume present the ways in which the body constitutes a valuable and productive object of historical analysis, especially as a lens through which to trace histories of social, political, and cultural phenomena and processes. More specifically, the authors use the body as a tool for critical re-examination of particular histories of human experience, and of societal and cultural practices, thus contributing to the burgeoning area of body history in terms of both specific case studies as well as historiography in general.
Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery
Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery - 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 Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery write by Paolo Savoia. This book was released on 2019-11-21. Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book uses the work of Bolognese physician and anatomist Gaspare Tagliacozzi to explore the social and cultural history of early modern surgery. It discusses how Italian and European surgeons' attitudes to health and beauty – and how patients' gender – shaped views on the public appearance of the human body. In 1597, Gaspare Tagliacozzi published a two-volume book on reconstructive surgery of the mutilated parts of the face. Studying Tagliacozzi’s surgery in context corrects widespread views about the birth of plastic surgery. Through a combination of cultural history, microhistory, historical epistemology, and gender history, this book describes the practice and practitioners considered to be at the periphery of the "Scientific Revolution." Historical themes covered include the writing of individual cases, hegemonic and subaltern forms of masculinity, concepts of the natural and the artificial, emotional communities and moral economies of pain, and the historical anthropology of the culture of beauty and the face and its disfigurements. The book is essential reading for upper-level students, postgraduates, and scholars working on the history of medicine and surgery, the history of the body, and gender and cultural history. It will also appeal to those interested in the history of beauty, urban studies and the Renaissance period more generally.
Plain ugly
Plain ugly - 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 Plain ugly write by Naomi Baker. This book was released on 2021-06-15. Plain ugly available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Plain ugly examines depictions of physically repellent characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented, particularly with regard to gender and the construction of identity. Available in paperback for the first time, the book focuses closely on English literary culture but also engages with wider European perspectives, drawing on a wide array of primary sources including Italian and other European visual art. Offering illuminating close readings of texts from both high and low culture, it will interest scholars in English literature, cultural studies, women’s studies, history and art history, as well as postgraduate and undergraduate students in these disciplines. As an accessible and absorbing account of the power dynamics informing depictions of ugliness (and beauty) in relation to some of the quirkiest literary and visual material to be found in early modern culture, it will also appeal to a wider audience.
