The Body Embarrassed

by Gail Kern Paster

Book Overview

Men and women in early modern Europe experienced their bodies very differently from the ways in which contemporary men and women do. In this challenging and innovative book, Gail Kern Paster
examines representations of the body in Elizabethan-Jacobean drama in the light of humoral medical theory, tracing the connections between the history of the visible social body and the history of the subject's body as experienced from within.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801427762
• ISBN13: 9780801427763
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher