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Author:

Engelstein, Stefani, 1970-

Title:

Anxious anatomy : the conception of the human form in literary and naturalist discourse / Stefani Engelstein.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

©2008

Description:

xiv, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Science in literature.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
German literature--19th century--History and criticism.
German literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Human reproduction in literature.
Literature and science--Europe--History--18th century.
Literature and science--Europe--History--19th century.
Sciences dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise--19e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise--18e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Littérature allemande--19e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Littérature allemande--18e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Reproduction humaine dans la littérature.
Littérature et sciences--Europe--Histoire--18e siècle.
Littérature et sciences--Europe--Histoire--19e siècle.
17.90 literature in relation with other areas of science and culture.
English literature.
German literature.
Human body in literature.
Human reproduction in literature.
Literature and science.
Science in literature.
Europe.
Science in literature.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
German literature--19th century--History and criticism.
German literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Human reproduction in literature.
Literature and science--Europe--History--18th century.
Literature and science--Europe--History--19th century.
1700-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-314) and index.

Contents:

Formative drives : Goethe's monstrous Otto ; Monkeys, humans, and other mammals ; Reproductive eyes ; Metamorphology ; Elective affinities, or, chosen correspondences -- "Natural" reproduction and reproducing nature : William Blake's bodies ; Developing embryology ; Regenerative monsters: the Polypus ; Prolific devourers in Blake ; Science and conscience -- Modular bodies : War wounds ; Kleist's aesthetic appendages ; Bodies in motion ; Disarming knowledge ; Disarticulation -- Autonomous or automata? ; Mutilations and multiplication ; Hoffmann's Cyborgs ; Instrumentality or bits and pieces -- Just animals ; Animal instinct and Mary Shelley ; Beauty and the beast: female sexuality and male materialiality ; Framing justice ; The pursuit of happiness -- Visual epistemology ; Reading race ; Coloring in austen.

Series:

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.

ISBN:

0791474771
9780791474778
079147478X
9780791474785

OCLC:

(OCoLC)320186749

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)