Monstrosities : bodies and British romanticism
Paul Youngquist reveals the cultural politics of embodiment in Britain in the late 18th & early 19th centuries. Drawing on the histories of medicine, economics, liberalism & nationalism, his work shows that bodies are not simply born, but rather built by cultural practices directed toward particular social ends
Print Book, English, ©2003
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, ©2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxxi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780816639793, 9780816639809, 0816639795, 0816639809
52047438
Part I: Incorporations
Building bodies
Troubling measures
Possessing beauty
Part II: Habituations
Bad habits
Crazy body
Part III: Appropriations
Mother flesh
Imperial legs