Anatomical Forms
The Science of the Body in Early Modern Women's Poetry
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"This book explores how women writers, who have long been marginal to histories of literature and science, wielded poetics as a tool for scientific work. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anatomists were actively exploring the best ways to represent bodies in texts-to translate the work of the dissection room into the pages of books. When we recognize Renaissance anatomy as fundamentally a book-making project, Sperrazza insists, we find an expansive history of anatomy in the pages of women's poetry. Reading early modern anatomy treatises alongside the work of Margaret Cavendish, Hest...
"This book explores how women writers, who have long been marginal to histories of literature and science, wielded poetics as a tool for scientific work. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anatomists were actively exploring the best ways to represent bodies in texts-to translate the work of the dissection room into the pages of books. When we recognize Renaissance anatomy as fundamentally a book-making project, Sperrazza insists, we find an expansive history of anatomy in the pages of women's poetry. Reading early modern anatomy treatises alongside the work of Margaret Cavendish, Hester Pulter, and others, Sperrazza uncovers complex engagements with topics ranging from corpse preservation and dissection to obstetrics and gynecology. Weaving together critical conversations in poetics, book history, the history of science, and women's writing, this book challenges readers to imagine science differently, and in the process, brings into focus a feminist history of poetic form centered on material practice"--
