Gross anatomies
Subtitle: fictions of the physical in American literature
By: Laura L. Behling.
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Selinsgrove
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781575911199
Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Body, Human, in literature; Mutilation in literature; Human anatomy in literature; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: Embodying anatomical mutilation; title: "A heap of arms, feet, and legs": rendering the body in Civil War texts; title: The matter of George Dedlow; title: Manufactured "naturals": artificial limbs and the reconceptualization of selfhood; title: Anatomical verisimilitude and the fiction of mechanical men; title: Capital offenses: the anatomy of the socioeconomic body; title: Seeing for oneself: unknowable narratives of the body.