Author: Paul Youngquist
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816639809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Paul Youngquist reveals the cultural politics of embodiment in Britain in the late 18th & early 19th centuries. Drawing on the histories of medicine, economics, liberalism & nationalism, his work shows that bodies are not simply born, but rather built bycultural practices directed toward particular social ends.