{"product_id":"anatomical-forms-the-science-of-the-body-in-early-modern-womens-poetry-hardback-9781512827590","title":"Anatomical Forms; The Science of the Body in Early Modern Women's Poetry (Hardback) 9781512827590","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAnatomical Forms\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Science of the Body in Early Modern Women's Poetry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWhitney Sperrazza (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781512827590\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 37 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Impeccably researched, beautifully written, and propelled by a vigorous sense of purpose, \u003ci\u003eAnatomical Forms\u003c\/i\u003e proposes revelatory ideas about the complex nature of poetic form in early modernity, particularly the intricate relationship between the semantic content of words and their material inscription on the page. This sensational book will break new ground in literature\/science studies and the study of women's writing in early modernity.\" (Jenny C. Mann, author of The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDemonstrates how early modern women writers such as Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter wielded poetics as a tool for scientific work\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnatomical Forms\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e Through close formal analysis and original research on early modern anatomy treatises, \u003ci\u003eAnatomical Forms\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702369055000,"sku":"9781512827590","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/anatomical-forms-the-science-of-the-body-in-early-modern-womens-poetry-hardback-9781512827590","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}