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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “Dust jacket, black cloth boards and book's interior in fine condition.”
- Custom Bundle
- No
- Signed
- No
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Vintage
- No
- Inscribed
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Type
- Examining a Question
- Personalized
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Era
- 2010s
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9781611483949
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
ISBN-10
1611483948
ISBN-13
9781611483949
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117215234
Product Key Features
Book Title
Revealing Bodies : Anatomy, Allegory, and the Grounds of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
Number of Pages
238 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Mind & Body, Modern / 18th Century, Gender Studies, Men's Studies, Poetry, Subjects & Themes / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Social Science, History
Book Series
Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture, 1650-1850 Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-029508
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
820.9/3561
Synopsis
Revealing Bodies turns to the eighteenth century to ask a question with continuing relevance: what kinds of knowledge condition our understanding of our own bodies? Focusing on the tension between particularity and generality that inheres in intellectual discourse about the body, Revealing Bodies explores the disconnection between the body understood as a general form available to knowledge and the body experienced as particularly one's own. Erin Goss locates this division in contemporary bodily exhibits, such as Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds, and in eighteenth-century anatomical discourse. Her readings of the corporeal aesthetics of Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, William Blake's cosmological depiction of the body's origin in such works as The First] Book of Urizen, and Mary Tighe's reflection on the relation between love and the soul in Psyche; or, The Legend of Love demonstrate that the idea of the body that grounds knowledge in an understanding of anatomy emerges not as fact but as fiction. Ultimately, Revealing Bodies describes how thinkers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and bodily exhibitions in the twentieth and twenty-first call upon allegorized figurations of the body to conceal the absence of any other available means to understand that which is uniquely our own: our existence as bodies in the world., Revealing Bodies considers three thinkers not often read together, in order to ask a question: how is it that we claim to know the body? This book explores a question with wide-ranging stakes both for those with specialized interest in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture and with a broader interest in bodily representation., Revealing Bodies turns to the eighteenth century to ask a question with continuing relevance: what kinds of knowledge condition our understanding of our own bodies? Focusing on the tension between particularity and generality that inheres in intellectual discourse about the body, Revealing Bodies explores the disconnection between the body understood as a general form available to knowledge and the body experienced as particularly one's own. Erin Goss locates this division in contemporary bodily exhibits, such as Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds, and in eighteenth-century anatomical discourse. Her readings of the corporeal aesthetics of Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, William Blake's cosmological depiction of the body's origin in such works as The [First] Book of Urizen, and Mary Tighe's reflection on the relation between love and the soul in Psyche; or, The Legend of Love demonstrate that the idea of the body that grounds knowledge in an understanding of anatomy emerges not as fact but as fiction. Ultimately, Revealing Bodies describes how thinkers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and bodily exhibitions in the twentieth and twenty-first call upon allegorized figurations of the body to conceal the absence of any other available means to understand that which is uniquely our own: our existence as bodies in the world.
LC Classification Number
PN56.B2G67 2012
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