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Monstrous Anatomies
The book explores the significance and dissemination of 'monstrous anatomies' in British and German culture by investigating how and why scientific and literary representations and descriptions of abnormal bodies were proposed in the late Enlightenment, during the Romantic and the Victorian Age. Since the investigations of late 18th-Century natural sciences, the fascination with monstrous anatomies has proved crucial to the study of human physiology and pathology. Featuring essays by a number of scholars focusing on a wide range of literary texts from the long nineteenth century and foregrounding the most important monstrous anatomies of the time, this book intends to offer a significant contribution to the study of the representations of the abnormal body in modern culture.
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La malattia dell’anima e il romanzo antropologico
Elisa Leonzio ripercorre in questo volume il nesso che lega il problema pedagogico, il riferimento antropologico, il tema religioso, allo sviluppo della forma narrativa tardo-settecentesca, concentrandosi su alcuni nodi tematici presenti nella Unsichtbare Loge di Jean Paul, osservato come uno dei migliori esempi di romanzo in cui sia possibile misurare la portata della svolta cruciale dei modi della narrazione in lingua tedesca dell’ultimo trentennio del XVIII secolo, interpretabile come “messa in questione”, come “dialettica” dell’Illuminismo.
Phantasmata
Nach mehr als neunzig Jahren spukt das »Unheimliche« noch immer. Quer über verschiedene wissenschaftliche Disziplinen gehört es zu den schillerndsten Termini gegenwärtiger Theoriebildung. Es bezeichnet eine seltsame Nähe zwischen Wissen und Nichtwissen, erscheint als etwas Vertrautes in fremder Gestalt oder als etwas Fremdes mit vertrauten Eigenschaften. »Phantasmata. Techniken des Unheimlichen« setzt bei Sigmund Freuds psychoanalytischem Modell an, verfolgt seine historische Genese und zeichnet seine heterogene Entwicklung nach. Der besondere Fokus liegt auf der Verschränkung des »Unheimlichen« mit »Techniken«: Zum einen werden literarische, mediale und soziale Praktiken der Ev...
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Motherless Creations
This book explains the elimination of maternal characters in American, British, French, and German literature before 1890 by examining motherless creations: Pygmalion’s statue, Frankenstein’s creature, homunculi, automata, androids, golems, and steam men. These beings typify what is now called artificial life, living systems made through manufactured means. Fantasies about creating life ex-utero were built upon misconceptions about how life began, sustaining pseudoscientific beliefs about the birthing body. Physicians, inventors, and authors of literature imagined generating life without women to control the process of reproduction and generate perfect progeny. Thus, some speculative fiction before 1890 belongs to the literary genealogy of transhumanism, the belief that technology will someday transform some humans into superior, immortal beings. Female motherless creations tend to operate as sexual companions. Male ones often emerge as subaltern figures analogous to enslaved beings, illustrating that reproductive rights inform readers’ sense of who counts as human in fictions of artificial life.
Metamorfosi dei Lumi 11
Le onzième volume des Metamorfosi dei Lumi explore le rôle crucial que la période de tournant des Lumières (1780-1820) joue dans la définition du concept moderne d’émotion. La dimension émotionnelle ne peut plus être étudiée dans ces années de manière abstraite, théorique, comme le demandaient les traités des passions du xviie siècle. Au contraire, cette dimension doit être inscrite dans l’expérience concrète. Les émotions naissent et se développent à travers un véritable choc, qui affecte de multiples niveaux d’investigation: à partir des relations interpersonnelles, dans lesquelles naissent et prennent forme les passions, jusqu’à la dimension publique, dans laquelle elles se configurent comme un ciment pour le lien social et un facteur de solidarité.
