Bodies and Narrativity Across the Early Modern World

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-485-6637-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 560 g

Reihe: Connected Histories in the Early Modern World

This book explores the intricate connections between the body and narrative across the early modern world. It examines how bodily aspects shaped the creation of stories and vice versa. The writing, telling, or interpreting of a story is inherently tied to corporeal acts and is, to varying degrees, shaped by them. Likewise, narrativity—the narrative form, including the framing and structuring elements that define a story’s meaning—can influence how the body is experienced, understood, and valued. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and incorporating case studies from Africa, the Americas, and Europe, this volume positions the body as a critical heuristic tool. It moves beyond the dichotomous debate between constructivism and essentialism by emphasizing the interplay of body and narrative.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huber, Vitus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, On Influences and Interdependences of Corporeality and Narrativity I. Body, Skin, and Colonial Narratives1. Conflicting Narratives of African Body Markings and Black Corporeality in Eighteenth-Century Brazil 2. Epidermal Writing, Colonial Semiosis, and Apocalypticism in Colonial Latin America: The Case of Diego de Landa (1524–1579) Corporeal Narratives and Political Power 3. Pregnant Bodies and Their Narratives: The Letters of Empress Maria Theresa to Maria Beatrice d’Este 4. Body and Power: Narratives of the Body in Early Modern Political History Bodies and Autobiographical Writing 5. "My soul takes no other alarm than the sensible and corporeal": Montaigne’s Essays as Bodily Autobiography 6. Early Modern Personal Narratives and "Fraile" Bodies 7. Narrating Her Life as an Amazon: Katharina Franziska von Wattenwyl’s Mémoires (1714) IV. Corporeality in Literature and Theatre 8. Childish folly": Narrating Sexual Acts Among Children In Nicolas Chorier’s Dialogues of Luisa Sigea (1659/60) 9. Reading on the Surface: Skin as Methodological Framework for Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, Bibliography, Index of persons and places.

Über Autor(innen)

Vitus Huber is Full Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Fribourg. He works on Ibero-American colonial history, the history of the body, autobiographical writing, and the history of the night. He has written two monographs on the so-called Conquista and most recently edited a special issue on self-optimization.