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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1199125672 Title: The perfecting of nature : reforming bodies in antebellum literature Author: Josh Doty Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2020. ISBN/ISSN: 9781469659633 1469659638 OCLC:1199125672

  
  

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The perfecting of nature : reforming bodies in antebellum literature

Author:	Josh Doty
Publisher:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"The nineteenth century saw a marked change in how Americans viewed and understood the human corporal form. Cookbook writers drew from physiologists' studies of the nervous pathways between the stomach and the brain to promote their recipes as good for mental health. These new ways of understanding the body reflect how Americans were beginning to see the body's constituent parts as interconnected. From the Transcendentalists' idealized concept of self to the rise of Darwinian Theory after the Civil War, the era and its writers redefined the human body as a deeply reactive and malleable object. In this book, Josh Doty explores the 'plasticity' of the antebellum American body-the body's ability to react and change from interior and exterior forces-and argues that literature helped to shape the cultural reception of these ideas"--  Read more...
Subjects	American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism. Human body in literature. Littérature américaine -- 1783-1850 -- Histoire et critique. View all subjects
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