The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance CultureAn outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. In this outstanding work, Jonathan Sawday explores the dark, morbid eroticism of the Renaissance anatomy theatre, and relates it to not only the great monuments of Renaissance art, but to the very foundation of the modern idea of knowledge. |
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... Literary Studies Michael Kerrigan , The Scotsman ' daring ... shrewd , assured ' Roy Porter , The Times Higher Education Supplement ' sharp , resourceful ... exciting , thought - provoking ' ' [ I ] n this dissection of the culture of ...
... literary , scientific , artistic , and architectural achievements of that age . Those achievements seem to span the European continent , and the two hundred years of cultural history which is this book's subject . However , in this ...
... Literary History English Literary Renaissance HLQ Huntington Library Quarterly JEGP Journal of English and Germanic Philology JHI Journal of the History of Ideas JHM Journal of the History of Medicine MH Medical History MLN Modern ...
... literary sphere , dissection and anatom- ization have come to be associated with satire , and hence with a violent and often destructive impulse , no matter how artfully concealed . A literary / satirical dissection , then , may be ...
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Contents
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THE BODY IN THE THEATRE OF DESIRE | 39 |
INSIDE | 54 |
SACRED ANATOMY AND THE ORDER OF REPRESENTATION | 85 |
THE UNCANNY BODY | 141 |
DISSECTING PEOPLE | 183 |
ROYAL SCIENCE | 230 |
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The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday Limited preview - 1995 |
The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday Limited preview - 2013 |
The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday No preview available - 1995 |