The Male Body in Medicine and Literature
Autor Andrew Mangham, Daniel Leaen Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 apr 2018
male potency and the 'ability to perform' have long been mainstays of social, political, and artistic discourse and have often provoked spirited and partisan declarations on what it means to be a man. This interdisciplinary collection considers the tensions that have developed between the historical
privilege often ascribed to the male and the vulnerabilities to which his body is prone. Andrew Mangham and Daniel Lea's introduction illustrates how with the dawn of modern medicine during the Renaissance there emerged a complex set of languages for describing the male body not only as a symbol of strength, but as flesh and bone prone to illness, injury and dysfunction. Using a variety
of historical and literary approaches, the essays consider the critical ways in which medicine's interactions with literature reveal vital clues about the ways sex, gender, and identity are constructed through treatments of a range of 'pathologies' including deformity, venereal disease, injury,
nervousness, and sexual difference. The relationships between male medicine and ideals of potency and masculinity are searchingly explored through a broad range of sources including African American slave fictions, southern gothic, early modern poetry, Victorian literature, and the Modern novel.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781786940520
ISBN-10: 1786940523
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 163 x 239 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Liverpool University Press
ISBN-10: 1786940523
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 163 x 239 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Liverpool University Press
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With the dawn of modern medicine there emerged a complex range of languages and methodologies for portraying the male body as prone to illness, injury and dysfunction. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, this collection explores how medicine has interacted with key moments in literature and culture.