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Author : George Sebastian Rousseau
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719033018
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Perilous Enlightenment written by George Sebastian Rousseau and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laurinda S. Dixon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501735764
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Perilous Chastity written by Laurinda S. Dixon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bearing such titles as The Doctor's Visit or The Lovesick Maiden, certain seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are familiar to museum browsers: an attractive young woman—well dressed, but pale and listless—reclines in a chair, languishes in bed, or falls to the floor in a faint. Weathered crones or impish boys leer suggestively in the background. These paintings traditionally have been viewed as commentary on quack doctors or unmarried pregnant women. The first book to examine images of women and illness in the light of medical history, Perilous Chastity reveals a surprising new interpretation. In an engaging analysis enhanced by abundant illustrations-including eight pages of color plates—Laurinda S. Dixon shows how paintings reflect changing medical theories concerning women. While she illuminates a tradition stretching from antiquity to the present, she concentrates on art from the thirteenth through the eighteenth centuries, and particularly on paintings from seventeenth-century Leiden. Dixon suggests how the assumptions of a predominantly male medical establishment have influenced prevailing notions of women's social place. She traces the evolution of the belief that women's illnesses were caused by "hysteria," so named in ancient Greece after the notion that the uterus had a tendency to wander in the body. All women were considered prone to hysteria-strong emotions, idleness, intellectual activity, or unladylike pursuits could cause it—but it was most commonly diagnosed among celibates. Analyzing paintings of women's sickrooms by Jan Steen, Dirck Hals, Gabriel Metsu, Jacob Ochtervelt, Godfried Schalcken, Samuel van Hoogstraten, and Franz van Mieris, Dixon perceives metaphoric identifications of the womb as the source of illness. She also documents changing fashions in cures for hysteria and discusses allusions to the debilitating effects of women's passions not only in paintings, but also in madrigals by John Dowland and Henry Purcell. In conclusion, Dixon argues that her study has strong ramifications of attitudes towards women and illness today. She takes up images in twentieth-century culture as well and calls attention to a resurgence of female "hysteria" after World War II.
Author : George Sebastian Rousseau
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719030727
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Enlightenment Crossings written by George Sebastian Rousseau and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Sebastian Rousseau
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719035067
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Enlightenment Borders written by George Sebastian Rousseau and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles W. J. Withers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226904075
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Placing the Enlightenment written by Charles W. J. Withers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enlightenment was the age in which the world became modern, challenging tradition in favor of reason, freedom, and critical inquiry. While many aspects of the Enlightenment have been rigorously scrutinized—its origins and motivations, its principal characters and defining features, its legacy and modern relevance—the geographical dimensions of the era have until now largely been ignored. Placing the Enlightenment contends that the Age of Reason was not only a period of pioneering geographical investigation but also an age with spatial dimensions to its content and concerns. Investigating the role space and location played in the creation and reception of Enlightenment ideas, Charles W. J. Withers draws from the fields of art, science, history, geography, politics, and religion to explore the legacies of Enlightenment national identity, navigation, discovery, and knowledge. Ultimately, geography is revealed to be the source of much of the raw material from which philosophers fashioned theories of the human condition. Lavishly illustrated and engagingly written, Placing the Enlightenment will interest Enlightenment specialists from across the disciplines as well as any scholar curious about the role geography has played in the making of the modern world.
Author : Arne Hessenbruch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134262949
Total Pages : 965 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Reader's Guide to the History of Science written by Arne Hessenbruch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 965 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.
Author : Robert P. Maccubbin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521347686
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (476 download)
Download or read book 'Tis Nature's Fault written by Robert P. Maccubbin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1988 volume addresses sexual phenomena in eighteenth-century Europe that were outside the legal or sanctified systems of acceptability.
Author : James D. Garrison
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 087413062X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book A Dangerous Liberty written by James D. Garrison and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Gray's An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard enjoyed extraordinary popular success in Europe, where it was widely translated, imitated, adapted, and in various ways assimilated into the continental literatures. The history of the Elegy's circulation on the continent demonstrates the importance of the poem to the romantic generation of European poets, while appreciation of this history serves to illuminate modern critical approaches to the poem's often uncertain or ambiguous meaning.
Author : David C. Lindberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521572439
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (724 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 4, Eighteenth-Century Science written by David C. Lindberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-17 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century.
Author : Christy L. Pichichero
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501712292
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Military Enlightenment written by Christy L. Pichichero and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Christy Pichichero makes a striking discovery: the Geneva Conventions, post-traumatic stress disorder, the military "band of brothers," and soldierly heroism all found their antecedents in the eighteenth-century French armed forces. Readers of The Military Enlightenment will be startled to learn of the many ways in which French military officers, administrators, and medical personnel advanced ideas of human and political rights, military psychology, and social justice.
Author : G. Rousseau
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023052432X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History written by G. Rousseau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout human history illness has been socially interpreted before its range of meanings could be understood and disseminated. Writers of diverse types have been as active in constructing these meanings as doctors, yet it is only recently that literary traditions have been recognized as a rich archive for these interpretations. These essays focus on the methodological hurdles encountered in retrieving these interpretations, called 'framing' by the authors. Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History aims to explain what has been said about these interpretations and to compare their value.
Author : G. Rousseau
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230590527
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Children and Sexuality written by G. Rousseau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-14 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children and Sexuality probes the hidden relations between children and sexuality in case studies from the Greeks to the Great War. The lives reconstructed here extend from Greek Alcibiades to Lewis Carroll and Baden-Powell, each recounted with scrupulous vigilance to detail and nuance.
Author : G. Rousseau
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230505155
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Nervous Acts written by G. Rousseau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-02 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays demonstrate the sweeping influence of the human nervous system on the rise of literature and sensibility in early modern Europe. The brain and nerves have usually been treated as narrow topics within the history of science and medicine. Now George Rousseau, an international authority on the relations of literature and medicine, demonstrates why a broader context is necessary. The nervous system was a crucial factor in the rise of recent civilization. More than any other body part, it holds the key to understanding how far back the strains and stresses of modern life - fatigue, depression, mental illness - extend.
Author : Jan Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199554595
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Tradition, Translation, Trauma written by Jan Parker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by a team of distinguished international contributors concerned with how Classic - mainly Greek and Latin but also Arabic and Portuguese - texts become present in later cultures; how they are passed on, received and affect over time and space, and how they resonate in the modern.
Author : Philip Brett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135863814
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Queering the Pitch written by Philip Brett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the first edition of Queering the Pitch was published in early 1994, it was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work in the new field of Gay Musicology. In light of the explosion of Gay Musicology since 1994, a new edition of Queering the Pitch is timely and needed. In this new work, the editors are including a landmark essay by Philip Brett on Gay Musicology, its history and scope. The essay itself has become a cause celebre, and this will be its first full appearance in print. Along with this new historical essay, the editors are contributing a new introduction that outlines the changes that have occurred over the last decade as Gay Musicology has grown.
Author : Tristanne Connolly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317316118
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Liberating Medicine, 1720–1835 written by Tristanne Connolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 18th century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack barber-surgeons of early modernity. This title presents 17 essays on the relationship between medicine and literature during the Enlightenment.
Author : Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262692106
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Good Looking written by Barbara Maria Stafford and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the reflexive identification of images with vice.
