Missing the breast
Subtitle: gender fantasy, and the body in the German Enlightenment
By: Simon Richter.
Series: Literary conjugations
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Breast in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Men with breasts, women without; value: Breasts on a platter and the bosom of Jesus: the parameters of fantasy; value: Phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and the breast; value: Ut in pene: the medical and moral discourses of the breast; value: Wieland's busted tropes; value: Sophie von la Roche and the communities of the breast; value: Revealing the phallus, concealing the breast: the revolutionary fictions of Wilhelm Heinse and Therese Huber; value: The breast in ruins: Heinrich von Kleist and the language of the breast; value: Being the breast, being without: Philip Roth, Matuschka, and Deena Metzger.