Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England
Author:   Alanna Skuse (University of Reading)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781108826181


Pages:   209
Publication Date:   16 February 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England


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Author:   Alanna Skuse (University of Reading)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.310kg
ISBN:  

9781108826181


ISBN 10:   1108826180
Pages:   209
Publication Date:   16 February 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. The Instrumental Body: Castrati; 2. Invisible Women: Altered Female Bodies; 3. Second-hand Faces: Aesthetic Surgery; 4. Acting the Part: Prosthetic Limbs; 5. 'Recompact My Scattered Parts': The Altered Body after Death; 6. Phantom Limbs and the Hard Problem.

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'This is a valuable, well-researched examination of how altered bodies disrupted ideas about the self within an early modern Christian context. Recommended'. B. Lowe, Choice


'This is a valuable, well-researched examination of how altered bodies disrupted ideas about the self within an early modern Christian context. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty'. B. Lowe, Choice


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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).

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