Research Catalog

Title

The Cambridge companion to the body in literature / edited by David Hillman, University of Cambridge ; Ulrika Maude, University of Bristol.

Publication

• New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hillman, David (David A.)
• Maude, Ulrika

Description

xiii, 273 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of the body in literature. It historicizes embodiment by charting our evolving understanding of the body from the Middle Ages to the present day, and addresses such questions as sensory perception, technology, language and affect; maternal bodies, disability and the representation of ageing; eating and obesity, pain, death and dying; and racialized and posthuman bodies. This Companion also considers science and its construction of the body through disciplines such as obstetrics, sexology and neurology. Leading scholars in the field devote special attention to poetry, prose, drama and film, and chart a variety of theoretical understandings of the body"--

Series Statement

Cambridge companions to literature

Uniform Title

Cambridge companions to literature.

Alternative Title

Companion to the body in literature

Subject

• Human body in literature
• Human body in motion pictures
• Human body > Social aspects
• Mind and body
• Human body > History
• Human body

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Medieval somatics / Bill Burgwinkle -- Disability / Jonathan Hsy -- Staging early modern embodiment / David Hillman -- Eating, obesity and literature / Maud Ellmann -- The body and language / Andrew Bennett -- The maternal body / Clare Hanson -- Literary sexualities / Heike Bauer -- The body, pain, and violence / Peter Fifield -- The ageing body / Elizabeth Barry -- Representing dead and dying bodies / Sander Gilman -- The racialized body / David Marriott -- Literature, technology and the senses / Steven Connor -- Literature and neurology / Ulrika Maude -- Psychoanalytic bodies / Josh Cohen -- The body and affect / Jean-Michael Rabate -- Posthuman bodies / Paul Sheehan.

Call Number

JFE 15-4718

ISBN

• 9781107644397 (paperback)
• 1107644399 (paperback)
• 9781107048096 (hardback)
• 1107048095 (hardback)

LCCN

2014047557

OCLC

898206195

Title

The Cambridge companion to the body in literature / edited by David Hillman, University of Cambridge ; Ulrika Maude, University of Bristol.

Publisher

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge companions to literature

Cambridge companions to literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hillman, David (David A.), editor.

Maude, Ulrika, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-4718