Eve Keller

Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves

The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

Eve Keller is associate professor of English at Fordham University in New York and is president of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 180mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780295986418
• ISBN-10: 0295986417
• Artikelnr.: 21459411

Autorenporträt

Eve Keller is associate professor of English at Fordham University in New York and is president of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. On Either Side of the Early Modern: Posthuman and Premodern Bodies and
Selves
ANCIENT REVISIONS
2. Subjectified Parts and Supervenient Selves: Rewriting Galenism in
Crooke's Microcosmographia
3. Fixing the Female: Books of Practical Physic for Women
MODERN MODULATIONS
4. Making Up for Losses: The Workings of Gender in Harvey's De generatione
animalium
5. Embryonic Individuals: Mechanism, Embryology, and Modern Man
6. The Masculine Subject of Touch: Case Histories form the Birthing Room
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index