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Keller's finely detailed investigation... is a brilliant example of how early modern history can benefit from a thorough and sustained engagement with the best scholarship in the fields of cultural theory and science studies. Medical History The scholarship is exemplary and exact, so this is a useful contribution to the history of literature and philosophy and the history of midwifery and medicine. Here is a sound topic honestly handled. Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves compellingly shows how medical writing took part in formulating emergent ideas about the self during the early modern period. Both in its larger thesis and in its readings of individual texts, Keller's book is a welcome addition to the study of early modern conceptions of medical knowledge, gender, and subjectivity. Early Modern Literary Studies Keller's book offers a compelling series of close readings of selected texts, undertaking detailed analyses of their language to reveal implicit ways of thinking in early modern England... Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves will thus be of most interest to literary scholars concerned with the emergence of the modern subject in written texts, but it should also appeal to historians of medicine as a companion to the historical accounts. ISIS

Keller's finely detailed investigation ... is a brilliant example of how early modern history can benefit from a thorough and sustained engagement with the best scholarship in the fields of cultural theory and science studies. Medical History The scholarship is exemplary and exact, so this is a useful contribution to the history of literature and philosophy and the history of midwifery and medicine. Here is a sound topic honestly handled. Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves compellingly shows how medical writing took part in formulating emergent ideas about the self during the early modern period. Both in its larger thesis and in its readings of individual texts, Keller's book is a welcome addition to the study of early modern conceptions of medical knowledge, gender, and subjectivity. Early Modern Literary Studies Keller's book offers a compelling series of close readings of selected texts, undertaking detailed analyses of their language to reveal implicit ways of thinking in early modern England... Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves will thus be of most interest to literary scholars concerned with the emergence of the modern subject in written texts, but it should also appeal to historians of medicine as a companion to the historical accounts. ISIS

"""Keller's finely detailed investigation.... is a brilliant example of how early modern history can benefit from a thorough and sustained engagement with the best scholarship in the fields of cultural theory and science studies."" ""The scholarship is exemplary and exact, so this is a useful contribution to the history of literature and philosophy and the history of midwifery and medicine. Here is a sound topic honestly handled."" ""Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves compellingly shows how medical writing took part in formulating emergent ideas about the self during the early modern period. Both in its larger thesis and in its readings of individual texts, Keller's book is a welcome addition to the study of early modern conceptions of medical knowledge, gender, and subjectivity."" ""Keller's book offers a compelling series of close readings of selected texts, undertaking detailed analyses of their language to reveal implicit ways of thinking in early modern England.... Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves will thus be of most interest to literary scholars concerned with the emergence of the modern subject in written texts, but it should also appeal to historians of medicine as a companion to the historical accounts."""

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Eve Keller is associate professor of English at Fordham University in New York and is president of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.

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