Body & Text in the Eighteenth Century

Kelly, Veronica & Von Mucke, Dorthea, E., editors

ISBN 10: 0804722692 / ISBN 13: 9780804722698

Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1994

About this Item

Series of scholarly essays drawing on 18th-century popular literature, aesthetics, beauty manuals, philosophy, and pornography from the works of such authors as Montesquieu, Addison, Locke, Lessing, Goethe, and Sade. Dust jacket in mylar cover.

Seller Inventory # 003568

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Body & Text in the Eighteenth Century
• Publisher: Stanford University Press, Stanford, California
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804722692
• ISBN 13: 9780804722698
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Review Copy.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

An understanding of the semiotic history of the body in the eighteenth century is crucial to understanding the orders of meaning and value that we have come to associate with this period. In this volume, twelve scholars from the fields of English, French, and German literature analyze the complex appearances of the human body at the centers and limits of the cultural production of meaning.

From the Back Cover

“These theoretically sophisticated essays offer examples of the more innovative and exacting styles of scholarly investigation being practiced today: from cultural studies to deconstructive reading, from historical study to close reading, from theoretically inflected feminism to psychoanalytic studies.”—William B. Warner, SUNY, Buffalo