Monstrosities: Bodies and British RomanticismU of Minnesota Press, 2003 - 224 pàgines A surprising evaluation of the role of the physical body in the construction of British identity. Eighteenth-century medicine used the word "monstrosities" to describe physically deformed bodies--those irreducible to the "proper body" in their singular, sometimes startling difference. Considering British society in confrontation with such monstrosities, Paul Youngquist reveals the cultural politics of embodiment in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Drawing on the histories of medicine, economics, liberalism, and nationalism, his work shows that bodies are not simply born but rather built by cultural practices directed toward particular social ends. Among the phenomena Youngquist treats are the science of comparative anatomy, the annual festivity of Bartholomew Fair, the social status of black Britons, opium habitues, pregnant women, and wounded war veterans. The authors he engages include John Locke, William Blake, Olaudah Equiano, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley. Uniquely interdisciplinary, formidably researched, and replete with curious illustrations, this remarkable book should be of interest to anyone concerned with the historical and cultural fate of bodies in liberal society--and with the importance of deviance in determining that fate. |
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Pàgina xi
... social relations that enforce their meanings . Consider the force of the word " abnormal . " To be called abnormal is to become subject to normality — a curiosity , perhaps a freak . Abnormality breeds interest , the kind of interest ...
... social relations that enforce their meanings . Consider the force of the word " abnormal . " To be called abnormal is to become subject to normality — a curiosity , perhaps a freak . Abnormality breeds interest , the kind of interest ...
Pàgina xv
... a moral whole , nor as part of a larger social whole , but as an owner of him- self , ... free inasmuch as he is proprietor of his person and capacities " ( 3 ) . An individual is what he ( never she ) possesses , INTRODUCTION XV.
... a moral whole , nor as part of a larger social whole , but as an owner of him- self , ... free inasmuch as he is proprietor of his person and capacities " ( 3 ) . An individual is what he ( never she ) possesses , INTRODUCTION XV.
Pàgina xvii
... social prestige . Their noblest agency occurs in the abstract and unlimited terms of accumulation rather than material and limited terms of subsistence — when driven by reason rather than muscle . That's why Macpherson argues that while ...
... social prestige . Their noblest agency occurs in the abstract and unlimited terms of accumulation rather than material and limited terms of subsistence — when driven by reason rather than muscle . That's why Macpherson argues that while ...
Pàgina xx
... social- ly productive . Such are the implications of Malthus's biologized economics , which reinforce that norm with the menace of reproductive monstrosity . The only proper recourse is to labor within the limits of the norm , as in ...
... social- ly productive . Such are the implications of Malthus's biologized economics , which reinforce that norm with the menace of reproductive monstrosity . The only proper recourse is to labor within the limits of the norm , as in ...
Pàgina xxiv
... social status : " because no single group of doctors could reli- ably cure , patients inevitably shopped around " ( 27 ) . The commercial Medical Register , first published in 1779 , lists three thousand medical practitioners in England ...
... social status : " because no single group of doctors could reli- ably cure , patients inevitably shopped around " ( 27 ) . The commercial Medical Register , first published in 1779 , lists three thousand medical practitioners in England ...
Continguts
BUILDING BODIES | xxxv |
TROUBLING MEASURES | 14 |
POSSESSING BEAUTY | 29 |
BAD HABITS | 61 |
CRAZY BODY | 81 |
MOTHER FLESH | 101 |
IMPERIAL LEGS | 133 |
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Pàgina xvi - From all which it is evident that, though the things of nature are given in common, yet man, by being master of himself and proprietor of his own person and the actions or labour of it, had still in himself the great foundation of property...
Pàgina xviii - It is the great multiplication of the productions of all the different arts, in consequence of the division of labor, which occasions, in a well-governed society, that universal opulence which extends itself to the lowest ranks of the people.
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La politica e la poetica del mostruoso nella letteratura e nella cultura ... Laura Di Michele Previsualització no disponible - 2002 |