Calzoni / Perletti Monstrous Anatomies

Literary and Scientific Imagination in Britain and Germany during the Long Nineteenth Century
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-8470-0469-1
Verlag: V&R unipress
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, Band Band 010, 316 Seiten

Reihe: Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities

The book explores the significance and dissemination of ‘monstrous anatomies’ in British and German culture by investigating how and why scientific and literary representations and descriptions of abnormal bodies were proposed in the late Enlightenment, during the Romantic and the Victorian Age. Since the investigations of late eighteenth century natural sciences, the fascination with monstrous anatomies has proved crucial to the study of human physiology and pathology. Featuring essays by a number of scholars focusing on a wide range of literary texts from the long nineteenth century and foregrounding the most important monstrous anatomies of the time, this book intends to offer a significant contribution to the study of the representations of the abnormal body in modern culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Calzoni, Raul

Perletti, Greta

Weitere Mitwirkende

Leonzio, Elisa

Bosco, Lorella

Latini, Micaela

Cappellotto, Anna

Di Blasio, Francesca

Ruston, Sharon

de Giovanni, Flora

Violi, Alessandra

Di Michele, Laura

Chialant, Maria Teresa

Guidotti, Francesca

Damiani, Sara

Crocetti, Daniela

Cometa, Michele

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Calzoni, Raul
Prof. Dr. Raul Calzoni lehrt Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft am Department für Fremde Literaturen, Sprachen und Kulturen der Universität Bergamo (Italien).

Cometa, Michele
Prof Dr Michele Cometa teaches Comparative Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Palermo. His research focuses on German cultural history and aesthetics, literary theory, and visual culture.