About this title: Men and women in early modern Europe experienced their bodies very differently from the ways in which contemporary men and women do. In this challenging and innovative book, Gail Kern Paster examines representations of the body in Elizabethan-Jacobean drama in the light of humoral medical theory, tracing the connections between the history of the ...
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Binding: orig. cloth
Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca
Date Published: (1993)
Description: Minor rubbing. Some light cover soil. VG. 23x15cm, xiii, 285 pp. Contents: Civilizing the Humoral Body; Leaky Vessels: The Incontinent Women of City Comedy; Laudable Blood: Bleeding, Difference, & Humoral Embarrassment; Covering His Ass: The Scatological Imperatives of Comedy; Complying with the Dug: Narratives of Birth & the Reproduction of Shame; Quarrelling with the Dug: Or I am Glad You Did Not Nurse Him. read more
Description: Very Good. 0801480604 Covers have light edge wear and corner crease on front cover, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on first page, last page in acknowledgments has small stain in the margin, everything else in Great Condition! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780801480607ISBN:0801480604
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Book is unused. Cover and edges may have light shop wear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. 0801480604 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
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