Embodying Enlightenment: Knowing the Body in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780312210885 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 279 str.

Rebecca Haidt

Opis

Examines the cultural construction of the masculine body during the Spanish Enlightenment

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Introduction Naming the Body, Knowing the Body: Anatomy, Medicine, and the Language of 'Experience' Seeing the Body: Pornography, Sensation, and the Nexus of Sight and Desire Reading the Body: Petimetres, Physiognomics, and Gendered Otherness Other Bodies, Other Selves: The Virtuous Masculine Body in the Cartas Marruecas Conclusion Notes Bibliography

O autorze

REBECCA HAIDT is Associate Professor of Spanish at Ohio State University and the author of various articles on eighteenth-century Spanish texts and cultural configurations. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for Independent Research in Mexico and a DAAD Direkstipendium for study in Germany.