Anatomical forms
by Whitney Sperrazza
ISBN: 9781512827590
Published: 2025-06-10
Demonstrates how early modern women writers such as Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter wielded poetics as a tool for scientific work Anatomical Forms excavates the shared material practices of women's poetic work and anatomical study in early modern England. Asserting that poetry is a dimensional technology, Whitney Sperrazza demonstrates how women writers wielded poetics as a tool for scientific work in order to explore and challenge rapid developments in anatomy and physiology. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anatomists were actively exploring the best ways to represent bodies in texts--to translate the work of the dissection room into the pages of books. When we recognize Renaissance anatomy as fundamentally a book-making project, Sperrazza insists, we find a complex and expansive history of anatomy in the pages of women's poetry. Women poets have long been absent from histories of literature and science, but by shifting our focus from content to form, Sperrazza...
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