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. Though the dazzling displays of the exterior of the body in Renaissance literature and art have long been a subject of enquiry, The Body Emblazoned considers the interior of the body, and what it meant to men and women in early modern culture. A richly interdisciplinary work, The Body Emblazoned re-assesses modern understanding of the literature and culture of the Renaissance and its conceptualization of the body within the domains of the medical and moral, the cultural and political. |
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... Language Notes MLR Modern Languages Review MP Modern Philology NQ Notes and Queries PMLA Publications of the Modern Languages Association PQ Pliilological Quarterly RQ Renaissance Quarterly RES Review of English 'Studies SP Studies in ...
... Language Notes MLR Modern Languages Review MP Modern Philology NQ Notes and Queries PMLA Publications of the Modern Languages Association PQ Pliilological Quarterly RQ Renaissance Quarterly RES Review of English 'Studies SP Studies in ...
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... language of domination and ownership - the language of the soul itself, since the poem's narrator (of necessity) speaks for the soul which is the very reasoning power allowing the poem utterance. Bodies, Donne writes, 'are ours, though ...
... language of domination and ownership - the language of the soul itself, since the poem's narrator (of necessity) speaks for the soul which is the very reasoning power allowing the poem utterance. Bodies, Donne writes, 'are ours, though ...
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... the 'discovery' or, more properly, the rhetorical deployment during the seventeenth century, of a new language with which to describe the body's and the world at every point, claiming for the body 22 THE BODY EMBLAZONED.
... the 'discovery' or, more properly, the rhetorical deployment during the seventeenth century, of a new language with which to describe the body's and the world at every point, claiming for the body 22 THE BODY EMBLAZONED.
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Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday. interior. This language is primarily associated with the post-Cartesian formulation of the body as a machine. But to the natural philosophers of the earlier ...
Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday. interior. This language is primarily associated with the post-Cartesian formulation of the body as a machine. But to the natural philosophers of the earlier ...
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... language of colonialism and the language of science as meshing with one another. To say of the New World that it was like a body, as Donne observed in 1622 when he addressed the Virginia Company as 'not onely a Spleene, to drain the ill ...
... language of colonialism and the language of science as meshing with one another. To say of the New World that it was like a body, as Donne observed in 1622 when he addressed the Virginia Company as 'not onely a Spleene, to drain the ill ...
Contents
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3 THE BODY IN THE THEATRE OF DESIRE | 39 |
INSIDE THE RENAISSANCE ANATOMY THEATRE | 54 |
5 SACRED ANATOMY AND THE ORDER OF REPRESENTATION | 85 |
6 THE UNCANNY BODY | 141 |
DISSECTING PEOPLE
| 183 |
8 ROYAL SCIENCE | 230 |
Notes | 271 |
Index | 316 |
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