1st Edition
Approximate Bodies Gender and Power in Early Modern Drama and Anatomy
By Maurizio Calbi
Copyright 2005
192 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The early modern period was an age of anatomical exploration and revelation, with new discoveries capturing the imagination not only of scientists but also of playwrights and poets. Approximate Bodies examines, in fascinating detail, the changing representation of the body in early modern drama and in the period's anatomical and gynaecological treatises.
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Acknowledgements Note on texts Introduction: Thinking about the body 1. "That Body of Hers": The secret, the specular, the spectacular in the Duchess of Malfi and Anatomical Discourses 2. "Behind the Back of Life": Uncanny bodies and identities in the Changeling 3. "A Meer Choas": Moles, abject bodies, and the economy of reproductive discourses 4. "Strange Flesh" and "Unshap't" Bodies: Monstrosity, hyperbolic masculinity and "racial" difference 5. "Un-pleasurable" Detours: Figurations of desire and the body erotic Bibliography Index
Biography
Maurizio Calbi
'Bringing anatomy and drama convincingly together, Approximate Bodies wears its theoretical sophistication lightly. Maurizio Calbi reads early modern texts in the light of Lacan and Foucault, and writes astutely of tragedy and gender.' - Catherine Belsey, Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, UK
