The body in parts : fantasies of corporeality in early modern Europe / edited by David Hillman and Carla Mazzio.

The body in parts : fantasies of corporeality in early modern Europe / edited by David Hillman and Carla Mazzio.

New York : Routledge, 1997.

xxix, 344 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

The Body In Parts examines how the body--its organs, limbs, and viscera--were represented in the literature and culture of early modern Europe. Why did sixteenth- and seventeenth-century medical, religious, and literary texts so often imagine the body part by part? What does this view of the human body tell us about social conceptions of part and whole, of individual and universal in the early modern period? As this provocative volume demonstrates, the symbolics of body parts challenge our assumptions about "the body" as a fundamental Renaissance image of self, society, and nation. The Body In Parts presents work by some of the leading figures in Renaissance literature and culture: Nancy Vickers on corporeal fragments; Peter Stallybrass on the foot; Marjorie Garber on joints; Stephen Greenblatt on bodily marking and mutilation; Gail Kern Paster on the nervous system; Michael Schoenfeldt on the belly; Jeffrey Masten on the anus; Katharine Park on the clitoris; Kathryn Schwarz on the breast; Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky on the eye; Katherine Rowe on the hands; Scott Stevens on the heart and brain; Carla Mazzio on the tongue; and David Hillman on the entrails.-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Members only / Nancy J. Vickers
Out of joint / Marjorie Garber
Sins of the tongue / Carla Mazzio
Visceral knowledge / David Hillman
Nervous tension / Gail Kern Paster
Is the fundament a grave? / Jeffrey Masten
Missing the breast / Kathryn Schwarz
The rediscovery of the clitoris / Katharine Park
Taming the basilisk / Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
Mutilation and meaning / Stephen Greenblatt
Fables of the belly in early modern England / Michael Schoenfeldt
Sacred heart and secular brain / Scott Manning Stevens
'God's handy worke' / Katherine Rowe.

United States -- New York (State) -- New York.

PN56.B62 B65 1997