Gross anatomies : fictions of the physical in American literature /
Behling, Laura L.,1967-
Selinsgrove, Pa. : Susquehanna University Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-237) and index.
Embodying anatomical mutilation -- "A heap of arms, feet, and legs": rendering the body in Civil War texts -- The matter of George Dedlow -- Manufactured "naturals": artificial limbs and the reconceptualization of selfhood -- Anatomical verisimilitude and the fiction of mechanical men -- Capital offenses: the anatomy of the socioeconomic body -- Seeing for oneself: unknowable narratives of the body.
American fiction
American fiction
Human body in literature.
Mutilation in literature.
Human anatomy in literature.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.