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The Cambridge Companion to the body in literature / edited by David Hillman, Ulrika Maude.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (288 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781107256668
  • 1107256666
  • 1107048095
  • 9781107048096
  • 1107644399
  • 9781107644397
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 809.933561 HIL-C ENG 85759Ss
LOC classification:
  • PN56.B62
Contents:
1. Medieval somatics Bill Burgwinkle -- 2. Disability Jonathan Hsy -- 3. Staging early modern embodiment David Hillman -- 4. Eating, obesity and literature Maud Ellmann -- 5. The body and language Andrew Bennett -- 6. The maternal body Clare Hanson -- 7. Literary sexualities Heike Bauer -- 8. The body, pain, and violence Peter Fifield -- 9. The ageing body Elizabeth Barry -- 10. Representing dead and dying bodies Sander Gilman -- 11. The racialized body David Marriott -- 12. Literature, technology and the senses Steven Connor -- 13. Literature and neurology Ulrika Maude -- 14. Psychoanalytic bodies Josh Cohen -- 15. The body and affect Jean-Michael Rabaté -- 16. Posthuman bodies Paul Sheehan.
Summary: This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of the body in literature. It historicizes embodiment by charting our evolving understanding of the body from the Middle Ages to the present day, and addresses such questions as sensory perception, technology, language and affect; maternal bodies, disability and the representation of ageing; eating and obesity, pain, death and dying; and racialized and posthuman bodies. This Companion also considers science and its construction of the body through disciplines such as obstetrics, sexology and neurology. Leading scholars in the field devote special attention to poetry, prose, drama and film, and chart a variety of theoretical understandings of the body.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Medieval somatics Bill Burgwinkle -- 2. Disability Jonathan Hsy -- 3. Staging early modern embodiment David Hillman -- 4. Eating, obesity and literature Maud Ellmann -- 5. The body and language Andrew Bennett -- 6. The maternal body Clare Hanson -- 7. Literary sexualities Heike Bauer -- 8. The body, pain, and violence Peter Fifield -- 9. The ageing body Elizabeth Barry -- 10. Representing dead and dying bodies Sander Gilman -- 11. The racialized body David Marriott -- 12. Literature, technology and the senses Steven Connor -- 13. Literature and neurology Ulrika Maude -- 14. Psychoanalytic bodies Josh Cohen -- 15. The body and affect Jean-Michael Rabaté -- 16. Posthuman bodies Paul Sheehan.

This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of the body in literature. It historicizes embodiment by charting our evolving understanding of the body from the Middle Ages to the present day, and addresses such questions as sensory perception, technology, language and affect; maternal bodies, disability and the representation of ageing; eating and obesity, pain, death and dying; and racialized and posthuman bodies. This Companion also considers science and its construction of the body through disciplines such as obstetrics, sexology and neurology. Leading scholars in the field devote special attention to poetry, prose, drama and film, and chart a variety of theoretical understandings of the body.

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