The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415157193 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 372 str.

Jonathan Sawday; John Sawday

Opis

This text is a study of the culture of dissection in the English Renaissance which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly 200 years. It provides an interdisciplinary framework for conceptualizing the body in literature, art, and the domains of the religious, the moral, the medical and the political.

Recenzje

'At the end of the 20th century, when cyberspace and AIDS have forced us to ask questions about the future of our physical selves, it's instructive to see where we've come from. It may help us see where we're going.' - Wired

'This book is a tour de force that promises to shape the questions scholars will ask about the representation of the early modern body for years to come.' - - Medievalia Et Humanistica

'Sawday's disturbing, revelatory work is a triumph.' - The Independent

' ... this is a compendiously ambitious and provocative work.' - Times Literary Supplement

'an absorbing and ambitious book' - - The Sunday Times

Spis treści

List of figures, Preface and acknowledgements, A note on spelling and citation, 1 THE AUTOPTIC VISION, 2 THE RENAISSANCE BODY: FROM COLONIZATION TO INVENTION, 3 THE BODY IN THE THEATRE OF DESIRE, 4 EXECUTION, ANATOMY, AND INFAMY: INSIDE THE RENAISSANCE ANATOMY THEATRE, 5 SACRED ANATOMY AND THE ORDER OF REPRESENTATION, 6 THE UNCANNY BODY, 7 THE REALM OF AN ATOM I A: DISSECTING PEOPLE, 8 'ROYAL SCIENCE', Notes, Index

O autorze

Jonathan Sawday