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Gross Anatomies
Laura L. Behling
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Description for Gross Anatomies
Hardback. Focuses on the mutilated and fragmented body that appears in United States literature in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Num Pages: 244 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
This study takes as its subject the mutilated and fragmented body that appears in United States literature in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an attempt to assuage the horror associated with disintegrating exterior and interior identities, authors turned medical practice into metaphor in order to explore precisely what had become of corporeal and metaphysical identity. They include detailed and often gruesome portrayals of the mutilated body, a trope that emerges from three particular agents: the horrific United States Civil War and World War I that both produced remarkable numbers of anatomically fragmented men; the very same machines that ... Read more
This study takes as its subject the mutilated and fragmented body that appears in United States literature in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an attempt to assuage the horror associated with disintegrating exterior and interior identities, authors turned medical practice into metaphor in order to explore precisely what had become of corporeal and metaphysical identity. They include detailed and often gruesome portrayals of the mutilated body, a trope that emerges from three particular agents: the horrific United States Civil War and World War I that both produced remarkable numbers of anatomically fragmented men; the very same machines that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781575911199
SKU
V9781575911199
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Ref
99-15
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