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An outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the English Renaissance, whic

Sets out to reconstruct and analyze the rationality of Phineas Fletcher's use of figurality in The Purple Island (1633) - a poetic allegory of human anatomy. Th

This volume situates and problematizes the points of tension implicated in diverse historical and theoretical conceptualizations of the body through a visual st

2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title How do concepts and constructions of the body shape people's experiences of agency and objectification within medical

In the Renaissance period the body emerges as the repository of social and cultural forces and a privileged metaphor for political practices and legal codificat