Alanna Skuse

Gebundenes Buch

Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England

Beschreibung

This pioneering account offers a new perspective on debates concerning embodiment in the early modern period, examining the varied experiences of those who underwent surgical alteration as a starting point for discussing questions of personal integrity, morality, and resurrection. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Autor

Alanna Skuse is the Wellcome Trust Research Fellow for the Department of English at the University of Reading. She was previously the Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Reading and long-term research fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Institute, Washington DC, and is also the author of Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England: Ravenous Natures (2015).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 159mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9781108843614
• ISBN-10: 1108843611
• Artikelnr.: 60199498