The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature
- Submitting institution
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 233014438
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107644397
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Additional information
- The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature, with 17 chapters and approximately 110,000 words, offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of the body in literature. It historicizes embodiment by charting the evolving understanding of the body from the Middle Ages to the present day, and addresses such topics as sensory perception, technology, language and affect; maternal bodies, disability and the representation of ageing; eating and obesity, pain, death and dying; and racialized and post-human bodies. The Companion also considers science and its construction of the body through disciplines such as obstetrics, sexology and neurology. Every chapter addresses both a historical period and a theoretical approach. The structure of the volume was carefully planned by the editors, who also wrote the abstracts for each chapter before the contributors – who wrote to the editors’ abstracts – were contracted. Maude (60% workload) has contributed a research chapter on ‘Literature and Neurology’, of 7750 words, and co-authored the 4000-word Introduction with David Hillman. Leading scholars in the field, such as Steven Connor, Sander Gilman, Maud Ellmann, and Jean-Michel Rabaté, devote special attention to poetry, prose, drama and film, and chart a variety of theoretical understandings of the body.
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