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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
A Centre of Wonders
:
The Body in Early America
Contains:
Frontmatter -- ; Contents -- ; Acknowledgments -- ; "The earthly frame, a minute fabrick, a Centre of Wonders"
/ Lindman, Janet Moore / Tarter, Michele Lise --
I THE PERMEABILITY OF BODIES AND ENVIRONMENTS -- ; Witchcraft, Bodily Affliction, and Domestic Space in Seventeenth-Century New England
/ George, Robert Blair St. --
Food, Assimilation, and the Malleability of the Human Body in Early Virginia
/ Eden, Trudy --
"Civilized" Bodies and the "Savage" Environment of Early New Plymouth
/ Finch, Martha L. --
The Body Politic and the Body Somatic
/ Miller, Jacquelyn C. --
II DEMARCATIONS OF THE BODY: FLUIDITY AND CONTAINMENT -- ; Murderous Uncleanness
/ Brown, Kathleen M. --
"Clean of blood, without stain or mixture"
/ Spear, Jennifer M. --
A "Doctrine of Signatures"
/ Stabile, Susan M. --
III BODIES IN PERFORMANCE: CORPOREAL MANIFESTATIONS OF IDENTITY -- ; Nursing Fathers and Brides of Christ
/ Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock --
Quaking in the Light
/ Tarter, Michele Lise --
"Antic Deportments and Indian Postures"
/ Nash, Alice --
The Body Baptist
/ Lindman, Janet Moore --
IV BODIES IN DISCOURSE: RACE, IDEOLOGY, AND PUBLIC RHETORIC -- ; Hannah Duston's Bodies
/ Toulouse, Teresa A. --
Body Language
/ Shoemaker, Nancy --
Emancipation and the Em-bodiment of "Race"
/ Melish, Joanne Pope --
The Problematics of Absence
/ Smith, Todd D. --
Selected Bibliography -- ; Contributors -- ; Index
Footnote:
In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Description:
Images of bodies and bodily practices abound in early America: from spirit possession, Fasting Days, and infanticide to running the gauntlet, going "naked as a sign," flogging, bundling, and scalping. All have implications for the study of gender, sexuality, masculinity, illness, the "body politic," spirituality, race, and slavery. The first book devoted solely to the history and theory of the body in early American cultural studies brings together authors representing diverse academic disciplines.Drawing on a wide range of archival sources—including itinerant ministers' journals, Revolutionary tracts and broadsides, advice manuals, and household inventories—they approach the theoretical analysis of the body in exciting new ways. A Centre of Wonders covers such varied topics as dance and movement among Native Americans; invading witch bodies in architecture and household spaces; rituals of baptism, conversion, and church discipline; eighteenth-century women's journaling; and the body as a rhetorical device in the language of diplomacy.