1st Edition
Bodies and Narrativity Across the Early Modern World
List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, On Influences and Interdependences of Corporeality and Narrativity I. Body, Skin, and Colonial Narratives1. Conflicting Narratives of African Body Markings and Black Corporeality in Eighteenth-Century Brazil 2. Epidermal Writing, Colonial Semiosis, and Apocalypticism in Colonial Latin America: The Case of Diego de Landa (1524–1579) Corporeal Narratives and Political Power 3. Pregnant Bodies and Their Narratives: The Letters of Empress Maria Theresa to Maria Beatrice d’Este 4. Body and Power: Narratives of the Body in Early Modern Political History Bodies and Autobiographical Writing 5. "My soul takes no other alarm than the sensible and corporeal": Montaigne’s Essays as Bodily Autobiography 6. Early Modern Personal Narratives and "Fraile" Bodies 7. Narrating Her Life as an Amazon: Katharina Franziska von Wattenwyl’s Mémoires (1714) IV. Corporeality in Literature and Theatre 8. Childish folly": Narrating Sexual Acts Among Children In Nicolas Chorier’s Dialogues of Luisa Sigea (1659/60) 9. Reading on the Surface: Skin as Methodological Framework for Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, Bibliography, Index of persons and places.
Biography
Vitus Huber is Full Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Fribourg. He works on Ibero-American colonial history, the history of the body, autobiographical writing, and the history of the night. He has written two monographs on the so-called Conquista and most recently edited a special issue on self-optimization.
