Reading for the Body: The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893-1985

by Jay Watson

Book Overview

Jay Watson argues that southern literary studies has been overidealized and dominated by intellectual history for too long. In Reading for the Body, he calls for the field to be rematerialized and grounded in an awareness of the human body as the site where ideas, including ideas about the U.S. South itself, ultimately happen.

Employing theoretical approaches to the body developed by thinkers such as Karl Marx, Colette Guillaumin,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820343366
• ISBN13: 9780820343365
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"