Monstrous Anatomies : Literary and Scientific Imagination in Britain and Germany during the Long Nineteenth Century

Monstrous Anatomies : Literary and Scientific Imagination in Britain and Germany during the Long Nineteenth Century

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FörlagV&R Unipress
ISBN9783847004691

The book explores the significance and dissemination of 'monstrous anatomies' in British and German culture by investigating how and why scientific and literary representations and descriptions of abnormal bodies were proposed in the late Enlightenment, during the Romantic and the Victorian Age. Sin