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Anatomical Forms

by Whitney Sperrazza
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781512827590
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 277
  • Original Price: GBP 54.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 616 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Renaissance, History, and Women Authors

Demonstrates how early modern women writers such as Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter wielded poetics as a tool for scientific work

Anatomical Forms excavates the shared material practices of women's poetic work and anatomical study in early modern England. Asserting that poetry is a dimensional technology, Whitney Sperrazza demonstrates how women writers wielded poetics as a tool for scientific work in order to explore and challenge rapid developments in anatomy and physiology.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anatomists were actively exploring the best ways to represent bodies in texts--to translate the work of the dissection room into the pages of books. When we recognize Renaissance anatomy as fundamentally a book-making project, Sperrazza insists, we find a complex and expansive history of anatomy in the pages of women's poetry. Women poets have long been absent from histories of literature and science, but by shifting our focus from content to form, Sperrazza reveals complex engagements with questions on corpse preservation, dissection, obstetrics and gynecology, and skin theory in the poetry of Margaret Cavendish, Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Wroth, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Hester Pulter.

Through close formal analysis and original research on early modern anatomy treatises, Anatomical Forms weaves together critical conversations in poetics, book history, the history of science, and women's writing. Sperrazza challenges her readers to imagine science differently--to understand that science might not always look like we expect it to look--and, in the process, brings into focus a feminist history of poetic form centered on material practice.

Sperrazza, Whitney: - Whitney Sperrazza is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University

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