the body


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  2. Billing, Christian M. Masculinity, Corporality and the English Stage 1580-1635. Forthcoming with Ashgate, September 2008.
  3. Calbi, Maurizio. Approximate Bodies: Gender and Power in Early Modern Drama and Anatomy. London: Routledge, 2003.
  4. Callaghan, Dympna. “Body Problems.” Shakespeare Studies 29 (2001), 68-71.
  5. Craik, Katherine A. Reading Sensations in Early Modern England. Early Modern Literature in History Series. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
  6. Crane, Mary Thomas. Shakespeare’s Brain: Reading With Cognitive Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
  7. Egmond, Florike and Robert Zwijnenberg, eds. Bodily Extremities: Preoccupations with the Human Body in Early Modern European Culture. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.
  8. Elam, Kier. “‘In What Chapter of His Bosom’: Reading Shakespeare’s Bodies.” In: Terence Hawkes, ed. Alternative Shakespeares, volume 2. London and New York: Routledge, 1996.
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  17. Harrawood, Michael. “High-Stomached Lords: Imagination, Force, and the Body in Shakespeare’s Henry VI Plays.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 7:1 (2007).
  18. Harris, Jonathan Gill. Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  19. Harvey, Elizabeth D. ed. Sensible Flesh: On Touch in Early Modern Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
  20. Healey, Margaret. Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
  21. Hillman, David and Carla Mazzio, eds. The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe. New York and London: Routledge, 1997.
  22. Keller, Eve. Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves: The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England. Washington: University of Washington Press, 2007.
  23. Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from Greeks to Freud. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1992.
  24. Levy-Navarro, Elena. The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity: Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  25. McMullan, Gordon, ed. Renaissance Configurations: Voices, Bodies, Spaces, 1580-1690. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001.
  26. Park, Katherine. Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation and the Origins of Human Dissection. New York: Zone Books, 2006.
  27. Paster, Gail Kern. The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993.
  28. Paster, Gail Kern. Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
  29. Paster, Gail Kern, Katherine Rowe and Mary Floyd-Wilson. Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
  30. Roodenburg, Herman. The Eloquence of the Body: Perspectives on Gesture in the Dutch Republic. Zwolle: Waanders, 2004.
  31. Rublack, U. “Fluxes: the Early Modern Body and the Emotions.” History Workshop Journal 53:1 (2002): 1-16.
  32. Sawday, Jonathan. The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.
  33. Schoenfeldt, Michael. Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  34. Scholtz, Susanne. Body Narratives: Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
  35. Seuntjens, Wolter. “Vapours and Fumes, Damps and Qualms: Windy Passions in the Early-Modern Age (1600-1800).” English Studies 87, no. 1 (2006): 35-52.
  36. Strier, Richard and Carla Mazzio. “Two Responses to ‘Shakespeare and Embodiment: An E-Conversation.’” Literature Compass 3 (2005), 15-31.
  37. Toulalan, Sarah. Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  38. West-Pavlov, Russell. Bodies and Their Spaces: System, Crisis and Transformation in Early Modern Theatre.Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006.

 


7 Responses to “the body”  

  1. 1 sdc

    Hey, I’m wondering what the source of the torso image is there? I’m doing a side project on early modern medical-body images
    thanks for this blog,
    S

  2. 2 Kristine

    The image is from Helkiah Crooke’s Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man (1615). Hope the bibliography is of use to you in your project!

  3. 3 sdc

    Yes, it is! I’m going to be looking at the artistic/romantic-looking open body in some early moderrn texts. Thanks,
    S

  4. 4 Kristine

    There are many more images, by the way, at a wonderful US National Library of Medicine exhibition site called “Dream Anatomy.” The site contains information about the history of anatomy and techniques of anatomical representation. Their sections “Anatomical Dreamtime” and “Getting Real” focus on the early modern period, and their Gallery contains a collection of anatomical images from the period.

  5. 5 bdh

    It’s actually from Vesalius, the source of most of Crooke’s engravings. Expect a long email from me with additions for the bibliography soon Kristine! B.

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