At the Borders of the Human : Beasts, Bodies

Science--its technological development and its insight into what it is like to be human--is an area of increasing interest to scholars of the early modern period. This specially commissioned volume of essays ranges across literature, history, and the history of science to analyze the nature of the human, in particular the concept of the body and the shifting borders between human and non-human.

Erica Fudge is Lecturer in English at the University of North London.

Ruth Gilbert is at Southampton University.

Susan Wiseman is Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick.

Acknowledgments

ix

List of Illustrations

x

Notes on the Contributors

xi

Introduction: the Dislocation of the Human

1

(8)

Erica Fudge

Ruth Gilbert

Susan Wiseman

Humanity at a Price: Erasmus, Bude, and the Poverty of Philology

9

(17)

Alan Stewart

Animal Passions and Human Sciences: Shame, Blushing and Nakedness in Early Modern Europe and the New World

26

(25)

Brian Cummings

Bodily Regimen and Fear of the Beast: `Plausibility' in Renaissance Domestic Tragedy

51

(23)

Margaret Healy

Midwifery and the New Science in the Seventeenth Century: Language, Print and the Theatre

74

(17)

Julie Sanders

Calling Creatures by their True Names: Bacon, the New Science and the Beast in Man

91

(19)

Erica Fudge

Cartographic Arrest: Harvey, Raleigh, Drayton and the Mapping of Sense

110

(18)

Stephen Speed

`The Doubtful Traveller:' Mathematics, Metaphor, and the Cartographic Origins of the American Frontier

128

(22)

Jess Edwards

Seeing and Knowing: Science, Pornography and Early Modern Hermaphrodites

150

(21)

Ruth Gilbert

`Forms Such as Never Were in Nature': the Renaissance Cyborg

171

(25)

Jonathan Sawday

Bodies without Souls: the Case of Peter the Wild Boy

196

(19)

Michael Newton

Monstrous Perfectibility: Ape--Human Transformations in Hobbes, Bulwer, Tyson

215

(24)

Susan Wiseman

The Economy of Nymphomania: Luxury, Virtue, Sentiment and Desire in Mid-Eighteenth Century Medical Discourse

239

(20)

Mary Peace

Index

259

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At the Borders of the Human : Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period

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