1st Edition
Bodies of Information Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop
Introduction: Bodies of Information
Chris Mounsey and Stan Booth
Part I: The Unknown Body
1. Dis/ability in Roman Dorset: An Integrated Osteobiography Approach
Stephanie Evelyn-Wright
2. The Imagined Emaciated Body in Late-Medieval English Memorial Sculpture
Christina Welch
3. Hideous and Mutilated: The Wedded Body in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales
Marianne Legault
4: Prosthetic Pomp: The Significance of Samuel Foote’s Amputation to His Performance in The Nabob
Jessi Parrott
Part II: The General Body
5. Violence and the Marked Body: (In)Visible Trauma in London During the Long Eighteenth Century
Madeleine Mant
6. Teacher of Right: Rousseau at the Limits of the State
Emile Bojesen
7. A "Profession" of Apology: Criminal Doctors or Medical Negligence and the Fuzzy Boundaries of Justice
Stan Booth
8. Precarious Health: Thomas Beddoes’s Pneumatic Therapy
Travis Chi Wing Lau
Part III: The Particular Body
9. The Spector of the Singular Body in Frankenstein: Difference and Reparation
Miriam Wallace
10. The Infinite Variety of La Casati
Will Visconti
11. "The Vagabond Venus": Cesare Lombroso Colonizes Tattoos
Sean Bride
12. A Question of Objectivity?: Reading Nicki Minaj’s VariAble Body
Chris Mounsey
Biography
Chris Mounsey is Professor of eighteenth-century cultural studies at the University of Winchester.
Stan Booth is an associate lecturer at the University of Winchester.
