Title Anxious anatomy : the conception of the human form in literary and naturalist discourse / Stefani Engelstein.

Descript 1 online resource (xiv, 326 pages) : illustrations Series SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century. Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-314) and index. Contents Formative drives : Goethe's monstrous Otto ; Monkeys, humans, and other mammals ; Reproductive eyes ; Metamorphology ; Elective affinities, or, chosen correspondences -- "Natural" reproduction and reproducing nature : William Blake's bodies ; Developing embryology ; Regenerative monsters: the Polypus ; Prolific devourers in Blake ; Science and conscience -- Modular bodies : War wounds ; Kleist's aesthetic appendages ; Bodies in motion ; Disarming knowledge ; Disarticulation -- Autonomous or automata? ; Mutilations and multiplication ; Hoffmann's Cyborgs ; Instrumentality or bits and pieces -- Just animals ; Animal instinct and Mary Shelley ; Beauty and the beast: female sexuality and male materialiality ; Framing justice ; The pursuit of happiness -- Visual epistemology ; Reading race ; Coloring in austen. Summary "In Anxious Anatomy, Stefani Engelstein reconstructs the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century human body to offer startling new readings of major works by Goethe, Blake, Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen. Engelstein links research on reproduction both to the ability of organisms such as hydra, snails, and newts to replace severed heads and gouged out eyes, and also to technical advances in battlefield amputation and artificial limbs. Readings of German and British literature, alongside natural history, surgery, aesthetics, and art, illuminate the importance of investigations into the body for emerging theories of human subjectivity, gender, volition, ethical behavior, and political organization. Engelstein also demonstrates how attempts to explain the structural characteristics of the body developed into biological justifications for ideologies of race, gender, and social hierarchies."--Jacket Note English. Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide Subject Science in literature. English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Human body in literature. Human reproduction in literature. Literature and science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century. Literature and science -- Europe -- History -- 19th century. Medicine in literature. Anatomy. Medicine -- History -- 18th century. Medicine in Literature Animal Structures Anatomy Reproduction History, 18th Century History, 19th Century England Germany anatomy. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Medicine in literature. (OCoLC)fst01015167 Medicine. (OCoLC)fst01014893 Anatomy. (OCoLC)fst00808440 English literature. (OCoLC)fst00911989 German literature. (OCoLC)fst00941797 Human body in literature. (OCoLC)fst01899762 Human reproduction in literature. (OCoLC)fst00963259 Literature and science. (OCoLC)fst01000093 Science in literature. (OCoLC)fst01108731 Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064 Literatur Schwangerschaft Motiv Naturwissenschaften Europa Ma⁺nniskokroppen i litteraturen. Engelsk litteratur -- historia -- 1700-talet -- 1800-talet. Tysk litteratur -- historia -- 1700-talet -- 1800-talet. Englisch. Deutsch. 1700-1899 ISBN 9780791474778 (electronic bk.) 0791474771 (electronic bk.) 9781435666863 (electronic bk.) 1435666860 (electronic bk.) 9780791474778 0791474771 9780791474785 079147478X