The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe

by Carla Mazzio (Series Editor), David Hillman (Editor), Carla Mazzio (Series Editor), David Hillman (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $42.38

  An examination of how the body--its organs, limbs, and viscera--were represented in the literature and culture of early modern Europe. This provocative volume demonstrates, the symbolism of body parts challenge our assumptions about the body as a fundamental Renaissance image of self, society, and nation.