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Missing the Breast: Gender, Fantasy, and the Body in the German Enlightenment
Simon Richter
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Description for Missing the Breast: Gender, Fantasy, and the Body in the German Enlightenment
Hardback. Using the tools of medicine, literary theory, psychology, psychoanalysis, and etymology, this book probes the breast-related fantasies underlying German culture and literature in the second half of the eighteenth century. It is intended for those interested in German textual studies, the history of sexuality, and theories of psychoanalysis. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 368 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 29. Weight in Grams: 654.
The cult of the female breast in contemporary American and European society is as pervasive as it is notorious. Our current fascination merely updates a long-standing obsession with the breast, which over the past twenty years has also become a subject of scholarly attention. Most historians and cultural theorists have focused on England and France, with virtually all research starting from the simple assumption that the breast is a signifier of the feminine and the female. With Missing the Breast, Simon Richter uses the texts of Enlightenment-era Germany to challenge that assumption, engaging instead the complexity of culturally constructed notions ... Read more
The cult of the female breast in contemporary American and European society is as pervasive as it is notorious. Our current fascination merely updates a long-standing obsession with the breast, which over the past twenty years has also become a subject of scholarly attention. Most historians and cultural theorists have focused on England and France, with virtually all research starting from the simple assumption that the breast is a signifier of the feminine and the female. With Missing the Breast, Simon Richter uses the texts of Enlightenment-era Germany to challenge that assumption, engaging instead the complexity of culturally constructed notions ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Series
Literary Conjugations
Condition
New
Weight
654g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295986111
SKU
V9780295986111
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About Simon Richter
Simon Richter is associate professor and chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
Reviews for Missing the Breast: Gender, Fantasy, and the Body in the German Enlightenment
Richter convincingly brings insights from previous chapters to illuminate the dynamics and issues in these contemporary texts. Richter's writing is accessible and all quotations are in English..Recommended.
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Sinuously pleasurable prose. . . . Richter's argument is plausible, thought-provoking, and intellectually stimulating. Missing the Breast will cause scholars to rethink gender and literature not only in the eighteenth-century ... Read more
Choice
Sinuously pleasurable prose. . . . Richter's argument is plausible, thought-provoking, and intellectually stimulating. Missing the Breast will cause scholars to rethink gender and literature not only in the eighteenth-century ... Read more