{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-american-literature-and-the-body-hardback-9781108841924","title":"The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body (Hardback) 9781108841924","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis volume offers an accessible overview of the key questions and intersectional approaches pertaining to American literature and the body.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTravis M. Foster (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108841924, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 June 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.601 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe human body has been depicted in a variety of ways across a range of cultural and historical locations. It has been described, variously, as a biological entity, clothing for the soul, a site of cultural production, a psychosexual construct, and a material encumbrance. Each of these different approaches brings with it a range of anthropological, political, theological, and psychological discourses that explore and construct identities and subject positions. This Companion examines connections between American literature and bodies from the eighteenth century through the present. It reveals the singular way that literature can help us understand the body's entanglement within social and biological influences, and it traces the body's existence within histories of race, gender, and ability. This volume details the genres, critical fields, and interpretive practices that best facilitate the analysis of bodies in the full span of American literary imaginings.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Travis M. Foster\u003cbr\u003e I. Genres: 1. Bodies in early US-Atlantic theater Marvin McAllister\u003cbr\u003e 2. Sentimentalism and the feeling body Claudia Stokes\u003cbr\u003e 3. Slavery, disability and the Black body\/White body complex in the American slave narrative Maurice Wallace\u003cbr\u003e 4. Monstrous bodies of the American gothic Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet\u003cbr\u003e 5. Bodies at war Colleen Glenney Boggs\u003cbr\u003e 6. Decolonizing the body in multiethnic American fiction Sony Coráñez Bolton\u003cbr\u003e 7. Science fiction's humanoid bodies of the future Frances Tran\u003cbr\u003e 8. Contemporary North American transgender literature: realness, fantasy, and the body Stephanie Clare\u003cbr\u003e II. Critical Methodologies: 9. Feminist theory, feminist criticism, and the sex\/gender distinction Christine 'Xine' Yao\u003cbr\u003e 10. Reading bodies and textual materialities Thomas Constantinesco\u003cbr\u003e 11. How to read disabled bodies in history Erica Fretwell\u003cbr\u003e 12. How to read disabled bodies now: crip of color critique Anna Hinton\u003cbr\u003e 13. Health humanities, illness, and the body in American literature Lindsey Grubbs\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Indigenous body in American literature Sean Teuton\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Black Body and the reading of race Christine Okoth\u003cbr\u003e 16. Ecocriticism and the body Delia Byrnes.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: The self, ego, identity, personality [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The self, ego, identity, personality\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20self,%20ego,%20identity,%20personality%20%5BJMS%5D%22\"\u003eJMS\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20theory%20%5BDSA%5D%22\"\u003eDSA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266433896728,"sku":"9781108841924","price":67.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108841924i_02260480-eb94-46ac-89c3-9ff006d61dac.jpg?v=1696727518","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cambridge-companion-to-american-literature-and-the-body-hardback-9781108841924","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}