Bodies of Information: Reading the Variable Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop

ISBN-13: 9780367360481 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 230 str.

Chris Mounsey; Stan Booth

Opis

This book encompasses Bioethical discussions on a wide range of descriptions of bodies in relation to their context, including literary analysis, sociology, criminology, anthropology, osteology and cultural studies to read a variety of types of artefacts, from the Romano-British period to Hip Hop.

Spis treści

Introduction: Bodies of Information  Part I: The Unknown Body  1. Dis/ability in Roman Dorset: An Integrated Osteobiography Approach  2. The Imagined Emaciated Body in Late-Medieval English Memorial Sculpture  3. Hideous and Mutilated: The Wedded Body in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales  4: Prosthetic Pomp: The Significance of Samuel Foote’s Amputation to His Performance in The Nabob  Part II: The General Body  5. Violence and the Marked Body: (In)Visible Trauma in London During the Long Eighteenth Century  6. Teacher of Right: Rousseau at the Limits of the State  7. A "Profession" of Apology: Criminal Doctors or Medical Negligence and the Fuzzy Boundaries of Justice  8. Precarious Health: Thomas Beddoes’s Pneumatic Therapy  Part III: The Particular Body  9. The Spector of the Singular Body in Frankenstein: Difference and Reparation  10. The Infinite Variety of La Casati  11. "The Vagabond Venus": Cesare Lombroso Colonizes Tattoos  12. A Question of Objectivity?: Reading Nicki Minaj’s VariAble Body