The Body in History, Culture, and the Arts

ISBN-13: 9780367671242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 180 str.

Justyna Jajszczok; Aleksandra Musial

Opis

This book proposes various ways of conceptualizing the body and of examining its relationship to history and historiography. Chapters focus on specific body-related histories, with the overall goal of accentuating the place, the role, and the use of the body in history, culture, and the arts.

Spis treści

Introduction: "The Past is Written on My Body": Bodies and History  Part I: The Liminal Body  1. Fortunio Liceti’s Strategic Use of Lusus Naturae in De Monstris (1634–1665) and the Self-Assured Semiology of Naturalized Early Modern Science  2. A Tlaxcalan Midwife’s Toolkit: The Body, Medicine, Childbirth, and Contact Zone in Early to Mid-Colonial New Spain  3. Ecstasies, Stigmata, and Visions: Body and Sanctity in La Civiltà Cattolica in the Age of Positivism (1888–1890)  Part II: The Modern Body  4. Making the Body Productive/Making "the Body" Productive  5. Corpulence, Modernity, and Transcendence in the Early Twentieth Century  Part III: The Visual Body  6. The Visual Politics of the Body in Germany Between the Two World Wars  7. Representing AIDS: KS Lesions, US Visual Culture, and the Body as Canvas (1983–1993)  Part IV: The Punished Body  8. The Criminal’s Hair: Forensic Practices (1600–1945)  9. Citizen to Convict: The Consumption of the Body in the Age of Prisoner Reentry  Part V: The Entangled Body  10. Aesth/ethical Bodies: Bracha Ettinger’s Eurydices and the Encounter with the Other’s History  11. The King’s Four Bodies: Kantorowicz, Schmitt, Henry, and Hal

O autorze

Justyna Jajszczok is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of English, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

Aleksandra Musiał is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.