Monstrous Anatomies

Literary and Scientific Imagination in Britain and Germany during the Long Nineteenth Century

316 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The book explores the significance and dissemination of ‘monstrous anatomies’ in British and German culture by investigating how and why scientific and literary representations and descriptions of abnormal bodies were proposed in the late Enlightenment, during the Romantic and the Victorian Age. Since the investigations of late 18th-Century natural sciences, the fascination with monstrous anatomies has proved crucial to the study of human physiology and pathology. Featuring essays by a number of scholars focusing on a wide range of literary texts from the long nineteenth century and foregrounding the most important monstrous anatomies of the time, this book intends to offer a significant contribution to the study of the representations of the abnormal body in modern culture.

• Reihe: Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities
• ISBN: 9783847104698
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2015
• Genre: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
• Verlag: V&R unipress
• Herausgegeben von: Raul Calzoni
• Herausgegeben von: Elisa Leonzio, Lorella Bosco, Micaela Latini, Anna Cappellotto, Francesca Di Blasio, Sharon Ruston, Flora de Giovanni, Alessandra Violi, Laura Di Michele, Maria Teresa Chialant, Francesca Guidotti, Sara Damiani, Daniela Crocetti, Michele Cometa, Greta Perletti