Liverpool University Press
The Male Body in Medicine and Literature
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- Andrew Mangham
- Liverpool University Press
- Hardcover
- 9781786940520
- 9.3 X 6.2 X 0.7 inches
- 1.14 pounds
- Literary Criticism > Comparative Literature
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Andrew Mangham and Daniel Lea's introduction illustrates how with the dawn of modern medicine during the Renaissance there emerged a complex set of languages for describing the male body not only as a symbol of strength, but as flesh and bone prone to illness, injury and dysfunction. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, the essays consider the critical ways in which medicine's interactions with literature reveal vital clues about the ways sex, gender, and identity are constructed through treatments of a range of 'pathologies' including deformity, venereal disease, injury, nervousness, and sexual difference. The relationships between male medicine and ideals of potency and masculinity are searchingly explored through a broad range of sources including African American slave fictions, southern gothic, early modern poetry, Victorian literature, and the Modern novel.
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