Monstrous Anatomies: Literary and Scientific Imagination in Britain and Germany During the Long Nineteenth Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783847104698)

Vendor: Raul Calzoni
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Monstrous Anatomies: Literary and Scientific Imagination in Britain and Germany During the Long Nineteenth Century

$82.00

Monstrous Anatomies: Literary and Scientific Imagination in Britain and Germany During the Long Nineteenth Century

$82.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Raul Calzoni
ISBN-10: 3847104691
ISBN-13: 9783847104698
Publisher: V&R Unipress
Language: English
Published: 09/16/2015
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.80d
By Raul Calzoni
By Raul Calzoni
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Raul Calzoni is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Bergamo. Greta Perletti holds a PhD in Textual Analysis and Theory at the University of Bergamo.

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