Broschiertes Buch

At the Borders of the Human

Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period

Herausgegeben: Wiseman, Susan; Fudge, Erica; Gilbert, Ruth

Beschreibung

What is, what was the human? This book argues that the making of the human as it is now understood implies a renegotiation of the relationship between the self and the world. The development of Renaissance technologies of difference such as mapping, colonialism and anatomy paradoxically also illuminated the similarities between human and non-human. This collection considers the borders between humans and their imagined others: animals, women, native subjects, machines. It examines border creatures (hermaphrodites, wildmen and cyborgs) and border practices (science, surveying and pornography).

Autor

BRIAN CUMMINGS Lecturer in English in the School of European Studies, University of Essex JESS EDWARDS University of North London MARGARET HEALY Lecturer in the School of English and American Studies, University of Sussex MICHAEL NEWTON Author and Editor MARY PEACE co-editor with Vincent Quinn of a Textual Practice special edition entitled Luxurious Sexualities and The Body Politic in Eighteenth-Century Britain JULIE SANDERS Reader in English, Keele University JONATHAN SAWDAY Professor of English Studies, University of Strathclyde STEPHEN SPEED Buckinghamshire University College ALAN STEWART Reader in Renaissance Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-27731-5
• 1999.
• Seitenzahl: 269
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9781349277315
• ISBN-10: 1349277312
• Artikelnr.: 44460704

Rezensionen

'all [the essays] are lively and original, and offer new perspectives on a provocative and... inexhaustible subject' - Eileen Reeves, Renaissance Quarterly

'The essays...open up [a] neglected aspect of our cultural history' - David Salter, Cahiers Elizabéthains