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Monstrosities: Bodies and British Romanticism by Paul Youngquist (Hardback, 2003)

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A surprising evaluation of the role of the physical body in the construction of British identity. Eighteenth-century medicine used the word monstrosities to describe physically deformed bodies--those irreducible to the proper body in their singular, sometimes startling difference. Considering British society in confrontation with such monstrosities, Paul Youngquist reveals the cultural politics of embodiment in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Drawing on the histories of medicine, ecomics, liberalism, and nationalism, his work shows that bodies are t simply born but rather built by cultural practices directed toward particular social ends. Among the phemena Youngquist treats are the science of comparative anatomy, the annual festivity of Bartholomew Fair, the social status of black Britons, opium habitues, pregnant women, and wounded war veterans. The authors he engages include John Locke, William Blake, Olaudah Equia, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley. Uniquely interdisciplinary, formidably researched, and replete with curious illustrations, this remarkable book should be of interest to anyone concerned with the historical and cultural fate of bodies in liberal society--and with the importance of deviance in determining that fate.

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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816639795
ISBN-13
9780816639793
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95566635

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Author
Paul Youngquist
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Cultural Studies
Type
Textbook

Dimensions

Weight
463g
Height
229mm
Width
148mm

Additional Product Features

Date of Publication
01/11/2003
Place of Publication
Minnesota
Spine
21mm
Content Note
8 Halftones, 28 Line Drawings
Genre
Cultural Studies
Country of Publication
United States

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