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Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England - Altered Bodies and Contexts of Identity (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,499
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Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England - Altered Bodies and Contexts of Identity (Hardcover): Alanna Skuse

Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England - Altered Bodies and Contexts of Identity (Hardcover)

Alanna Skuse

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Offering an innovative perspective on early modern debates concerning embodiment, Alanna Skuse examines diverse kinds of surgical alteration, from mastectomy to castration, and amputation to facial reconstruction. Body-altering surgeries had profound socio-economic and philosophical consequences. They reached beyond the physical self, and prompted early modern authors to develop searching questions about the nature of body integrity and its relationship to the soul: was the body a part of one's identity, or a mere 'prison' for the mind? How was the body connected to personal morality? What happened to the altered body after death? Drawing on a wide variety of texts including medical treatises, plays, poems, newspaper reports and travel writings, this volume will argue the answers to these questions were flexible, divergent and often surprising, and helped to shape early modern thoughts on philosophy, literature, and the natural sciences. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2021
Authors: Alanna Skuse
Dimensions: 150 x 230 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-84361-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
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LSN: 1-108-84361-1
Barcode: 9781108843614

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