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The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe

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An examination of how the body--its organs, limbs, and viscera--were represented in the literature and culture of early modern Europe. This provocative volume demonstrates, the symbolism of body parts challenge our assumptions about "the body" as a fundamental Renaissance image of self, society, and nation.

Author(s): Carla Mazzio, David Hillman
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1997

Language: English
Pages: 376
City: London

Cover
The Body in Parts
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Individual Parts
I. Subjecting the Part
2. Members Only
3. Out of Joint
4. Sins of the Tongue
5. Visceral Knowledge
6. Nervous Tension
II. Sexing the Part
7. Is the Fundament a Grave?
8. Missing the Breast
9. The Rediscovery of the Clitoris
10. Taming the Basilisk
III. Divining the Part
11. Mutilation and Meaning
12. Fables of the Belly in Early Modern England
13. Sacred Heart and Secular Brain
14. "God's handy worke"
IV. Parting Words
15. Footnotes
Contributors
Index