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Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England
Offering an innovative perspective on debates concerning embodiment in the early modern period, Alanna Skuse examines diverse kinds of surgical alteration, from mastectomy to castration, and amputation to facial reconstruction. Body-altering surgeries had profound socio-economic and philosophical consequences. They reached beyond the physical self, and prompted early modern authors to develop searching questions about the nature of body integrity and its relationship to the soul: was the body a part of one s identity, or a mere prison for the mind? How was the body connected to personal morality? What happened to the altered body after death? Drawing on a wide variety of texts including medical treatises, plays, poems, newspaper reports, and travel writings, this volume will argue that the answers to these questions were flexible, divergent, and often surprising, and helped to shape early modern thoughts on philosophy, literature, and the natural sciences. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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).
Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England
Altered Bodies and Contexts of Identity
Alanna Skuse
University of Reading
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DOI: 10.1017/9781108919395
Alanna Skuse 2021
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Title : Surgery and selfhood in early modern England : altered bodies and contexts of identity / Alanna Skuse, University of Reading.
Description : Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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