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Author:   Chris Mounsey (University of Winchester, UK) ,  Stan Booth (University of Winchester, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367360481

ISBN 10:   0367360489
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   08 November 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Bodies of Information Part I: The Unknown Body 1. Dis/ability in Roman Dorset: An Integrated Osteobiography Approach 2. The Imagined Emaciated Body in Late-Medieval English Memorial Sculpture 3. Hideous and Mutilated: The Wedded Body in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales 4: Prosthetic Pomp: The Significance of Samuel Foote’s Amputation to His Performance in The Nabob Part II: The General Body 5. Violence and the Marked Body: (In)Visible Trauma in London During the Long Eighteenth Century 6. Teacher of Right: Rousseau at the Limits of the State 7. A ""Profession"" of Apology: Criminal Doctors or Medical Negligence and the Fuzzy Boundaries of Justice 8. Precarious Health: Thomas Beddoes’s Pneumatic Therapy Part III: The Particular Body 9. The Spector of the Singular Body in Frankenstein: Difference and Reparation 10. The Infinite Variety of La Casati 11. ""The Vagabond Venus"": Cesare Lombroso Colonizes Tattoos 12. A Question of Objectivity?: Reading Nicki Minaj’s VariAble Body"

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Chris Mounsey is Professor of eighteenth-century cultural studies at the University of Winchester. Stan Booth is an associate lecturer at the University of Winchester.

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