Reproduction and the Maternal Body in Lite...

Dekorationsartikel gehören nicht zum Leistungsumfang.

Sprache: Englisch

47,30 €

inkl. MwSt.

Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL

Lieferzeit 4-7 Werktage

Kategorien:

Beschreibung

This book examines a selection of texts to discuss how midwifery, obstetrics and women's bodies were constructed during the (long) eighteenth century, and how these material-discursive entanglements between science, medicine, literature and culture have shaped society's views of pregnancy, childbirth and reproduction.
Drawing on theories from disciplines such as feminist new materialism, this book traces the history of both the reproductive body and the pluralistic medical knowledges that attended to pregnancy and childbirth during the Enlightenment and early Romanticism in Britain. It identifies the significance of literary and cultural artefacts in this knowledge formation, including the materiality of the female reproductive body itself, and raises awareness of myths about pregnancy and childbirth that persist today. This book features chapters exploring Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, John Cleland's Fanny Hill, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Eliza Fenwick's Secresy, Or: The Ruin on the Rock, Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, Or: The Wrongs of Woman, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Reproduction and the Maternal Body in Literature and Culture is an innovative and interdisciplinary contribution to the medical humanities and feminist philosophy of science and will interest scholars from a range of backgrounds, including literature and cultural studies, midwifery, medicine and history.

Über den Autor

Jennifer S. Henke is a literary and cultural studies scholar with a PhD from the University of Bremen, Germany, and a Venia Legendi for Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Bonn, Germany.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

[...] I | Mapping the Field, 1.1. Introduction: In the Delivery Room, 1.2. Context: Historicising the Reproductive Body, 1.3. Framework: Beyond Representationalism, 2. PART II | Science, Sex & Secret Bodies of Knowledge, 2.1. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726), 2.2. John Cleland's Fanny Hill (1749), 2.3. Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1759), 2.4. Eliza Fenwick's Secresy, Or: The Ruin on the Rock (1795), 2.5. Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, Or: The Wrongs of Woman (1798), 2.6. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Or: The Modern Prometheus (1818), 3. PART III | Stitching the Pieces Together, 3.1 Stitching, 4.Bibliography

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2026
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sprachwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781032742229
ISBN-10:	1032742224
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Henke, Jennifer S.
Auflage:	1. Auflage
Hersteller:	Routledge Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Jennifer S. Henke
Erscheinungsdatum:	27.08.2026
Gewicht:	0,445 kg