This pioneering account offers a new perspective on debates concerning embodiment in the early modern period, examining the varied experiences of those who underwent surgical alteration as a starting point for discussing questions of personal integrity, morality, and resurrection. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
This pioneering account offers a new perspective on debates concerning embodiment in the early modern period, examining the varied experiences of those who underwent surgical alteration as a starting point for discussing questions of personal integrity, morality, and resurrection. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Alanna Skuse is the Wellcome Trust Research Fellow for the Department of English at the University of Reading. She was previously the Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Reading and long-term research fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Institute, Washington DC, and is also the author of Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England: Ravenous Natures (2015).
Inhaltsangabe
1. The Instrumental Body: Castrati 2. Invisible Women: Altered Female Bodies 3. Second-hand Faces: Aesthetic Surgery 4. Acting the Part: Prosthetic Limbs 5. 'Recompact My Scattered Parts': The Altered Body after Death 6. Phantom Limbs and the Hard Problem.
1. The Instrumental Body: Castrati 2. Invisible Women: Altered Female Bodies 3. Second-hand Faces: Aesthetic Surgery 4. Acting the Part: Prosthetic Limbs 5. 'Recompact My Scattered Parts': The Altered Body after Death 6. Phantom Limbs and the Hard Problem.
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