Titlebook: At the Borders of the Human; Beasts, Bodies and N Erica Fudge (lecturer),Ruth Gilbert (lecturer),Sus Book 1999 Palgrave Macmillan, a divisi

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Animal Passions and Human Sciences: Shame, Blushing and Nakedness in Early Modern Europe and the Neow be called the emotions) occupied an uneasy borderland between the mental and the bodily, the rational and the physiological, the intellectual and the appetitive. Neither one thing nor the other, the passions moved ambiguously in a state of constant liminality. ‘These passions then be certaine int

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,Bodily Regimen and Fear of the Beast: ‘Plausibility’ in Renaissance Domestic Tragedy, and ‘in-humane’, which aligned man with the beast and the tyrant, and woman with the antithesis of the nurturing mother — the murderous, unnatural monster. Figures like Husband in ., and Ferdinand in ., exemplify the male type, whilst Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth and Alice Arden in . are archetypal f

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Midwifery and the New Science in the Seventeenth Century: Language, Print and the Theatre, gossips and scandalmongers is vividly represented (Fig. 4.1). Women are depicted as chattering with each other in various locales; from the marketplace to the water conduit and from there to the river; in the bakehouse and the alehouse. These are all outside activities, public exchanges of sorts, b

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Calling Creatures by their True Names: Bacon, the New Science and the Beast in Man,on and experiment were proposed as the new ways of realising human potential and power in the study and control of the natural world. Within this scheme Francis Bacon is regarded as the ‘Father’ of the new movement, offering, in numerous works, a philosophical basis for future investigative endeavou

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Seeing and Knowing: Science, Pornography and Early Modern Hermaphrodites,a particularly Renaissance excitement about specular exploration and the pursuit of knowledge. However, as St Augustine had already suggested these were potentially dangerous thrills. In the . he meditated upon the temptations aroused by the ‘lust of the eyes’, arguing that such ocular desires were

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,‘Forms Such as Never Were in Nature’: the Renaissance Cyborg,en at the Science Museum in London. Embedded within his transparent body are over fifty different ‘devices’ ranging from the banal to the very edge of science fiction.. Dentures and glass eyes have an ancient history, but the anterior cervical plate — a device which fuses the head and the neck bones

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Bodies without Souls: the Case of Peter the Wild Boy,he Wild Boy represents the first major account of an actual feral child, a key symbolic figure in Enlightenment culture.. Such children exist as images of ‘essential’ humanity, human beings living in a realised and unique state of nature. Although the possibilities inherent in the subject are not fu