{"product_id":"approximate-bodies","title":"Approximate Bodies","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe early modern period was an age of anatomical exploration and revelation, with new discoveries capturing the imagination not only of scientists but also of playwrights and poets. \u003cem\u003eApproximate Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e examines, in fascinating detail, the changing representation of the body in early modern drama and in the period's anatomical and gynaecological treatises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaurizio Calbi focuses on the unstable representation of both masculinity and femininity in Renaissance texts such as \u003cem\u003eThe Duchess of Malfi\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Changeling \u003c\/em\u003eand a variety of Shakespeare plays. Drawing on theorists including Foucault, Derrida and Lacan, these close textual readings examine the effects of social, psychic and cultural influences on early modern images of the body. Calbi identifies the ways in which political, social, racial and sexual power structures effect the construction of the body in dramatic and anatomical texts. Calbi's analysis displays how images such as the deformed body of the outsider, the effeminate body of the desiring male and the disfigured body parts of the desiring female indicate an unstable, incomplete conception of the body in the Renaissance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompelling and impeccably researched, this is a sophisticated account of the fantasies and anxieties that play a role in constructing the early modern body. \u003cem\u003eApproximate Bodies \u003c\/em\u003emakes a major contribution to the field of early modern studies and to debates around the body.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54231476339032,"sku":"9780415345606","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415345606_663bab46-645a-469c-96e6-578ece49f018.jpg?v=1769238030","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/approximate-bodies","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}