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1. The Body in Parts

   Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe

   Edited by David Hillman, Carla Mazzio

   An examination of how the body--its organs, limbs, and viscera--were represented in the literature and culture of early modern Europe. This provocative volume demonstrates, the symbolism of body parts challenge our assumptions about "the body" as a fundamental Renaissance image of self, society,...

   Published July 1st 1997 by Routledge