David Hillman

The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature - Cambridge Companions to Literature David Hillman

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of the body in literature. It historicizes embodiment by charting our evolving understanding of the body from the Middle Ages to the present day, and addresses such questions as sensory perception, technology, language and affect;maternal bodies, disability and the representation of ageing;eating and obesity, pain, death and dying;and racialized and posthuman bodies. This Companion also considers science and its construction of the body through disciplines such as obstetrics, sexology and neurology. Leading scholars in the field devote special attention to poetry, prose, drama and film, and chart a variety of theoretical understandings of the body--; Provided by publisher. Brief Description: This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the body in literature, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Table of Contents: 1. Medieval somatics Bill Burgwinkle; 2. Disability Jonathan Hsy; 3. Staging early modern embodiment David Hillman; 4. Eating, obesity and literature Maud Ellmann; 5. The body and language Andrew Bennett; 6. The maternal body Clare Hanson; 7. Literary sexualities Heike Bauer; 8. The body, pain, and violence Peter Fifield; 9. The ageing body Elizabeth Barry; 10. Representing dead and dying bodies Sander Gilman; 11. The racialized body David Marriott; 12. Literature, technology and the senses Steven Connor; 13. Literature and neurology Ulrika Maude; 14. Psychoanalytic bodies Josh Cohen; 15. The body and affect Jean-Michael Rabate; 16. Posthuman bodies Paul Sheehan."Brief Description: "This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of the body in literature. It historicizes embodiment by charting our evolving understanding of the body from the Middle Ages to the present day, and addresses such questions as sensory perception, technology, language and affect; maternal bodies, disability and the representation of ageing; eating and obesity, pain, death and dying; and racialized and posthuman bodies. This Companion also considers science and its construction of the body through disciplines such as obstetrics, sexology and neurology. Leading scholars in the field devote special attention to poetry, prose, drama and film, and chart a variety of theoretical understandings of the body"--

Contributor Bio:  Hillman, David Crystal Bartolovich is Associate Professor in the English Department at Syracuse University, USA. Contributor Bio:  Maude, Ulrika Ulrika Maude is a Senior Lecturer in Modernism and Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Beckett, Technology and the Body (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and co-editor of The Body and the Arts and Beckett and Phenomenology. She has recently co-edited Beckett, Medicine and the Brain, a special issue of the Journal of Medical Humanities (forthcoming, 2015). Maude is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Beckett Studies and has contributed to such journals as Modernism/Modernity and European Joyce Studies.