The book explores the significance and dissemination of 'monstrous anatomies' in British and German culture in the late Enlightenment, during the Romantic and the Victorian Age.
Not only the sleep of reason produces Monsters ...
The book explores the significance and dissemination of 'monstrous anatomies' in British and German culture by investigating how and why scientific and literary representations and deillegalscriptions of abnormal bodies were proposed in the late Enlightenment, during the Romantic and the Victorian Age. Since the investigations of late eighteenth century natural sciences, the fascination with monstrous anatomies has proved crucial to the study of human physiology and pathology. Featuring essays by a number of scholars focusing on a wide range of literary texts from the long nineteenth century and foregrounding the most important monstrous anatomies of the time, this book intends to offer a significant contribution to the study of the representations of the abnormal body in modern culture.
Lorella Bosco ist Professorin für Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft an der Università degli Studi di Bari (Italien).
Francesca Di Blasio is Associate Professor at the University of Trento, Italy. Her areas of research are Indigenous Australian Literature, Early Modern Literature, transdisciplinarity in literary discourse.
Prof Dr Michele Cometa teaches Comparative Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Palermo. His research focuses on German cultural history and aesthetics, literary theory, and visual culture.
Prof. Dr. Raul Calzoni lehrt Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft am Department für Fremde Literaturen, Sprachen und Kulturen der Universität Bergamo (Italien).
Greta Perletti is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Trento, Italy. Her research interests focus on interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the long nineteenth century.
Über den Autor
Raul Calzoni is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Bergamo. Greta Perletti holds a PhD in Textual Analysis and Theory at the University of Bergamo.
Klappentext
The book explores the significance and dissemination of 'monstrous anatomies' in British and German culture by investigating how and why scientific and literary representations and deillegalscriptions of abnormal bodies were proposed in the late Enlightenment, during the Romantic and the Victorian Age. Since the investigations of late 18th-Century natural sciences, the fascination with monstrous anatomies has proved crucial to the study of human physiology and pathology. Featuring essays by a number of scholars focusing on a wide range of literary texts from the long nineteenth century and foregrounding the most important monstrous anatomies of the time, this book intends to offer a significant contribution to the study of the representations of the abnormal body in modern culture.
Not only the sleep of reason produces Monsters.
