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Approximate Bodies Gender and Power in Early Modern Drama and Anatomy

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Author(s): Maurizio Calbi
Year: 2005

Language: English
Pages: 192

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of illustrations......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Note on texts......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
1 'That body of hers': The secret, the specular, the spectacular in The Duchess of Malfi and anatomical discourses......Page 24
2 'Behind the back of life': Uncanny bodies and identities in The changeling......Page 55
3 'A meer choas': Moles, abject bodies and the economy of reproductive discourses......Page 79
4 'Strange flesh' and 'unshap't bodies': Monstrosity, hyperbolic masculinity and 'racial' difference......Page 95
5 'Un-pleasurable' detours: Figurations of desire and the body erotic......Page 106
Notes......Page 124
Bibliography......Page 176
Index......Page 188