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The Body and Modernity

Darren N. Wagner

Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik in der Medizin, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Lesson Plan

...Introduction Modernity has involved profound changes to human bodies. As a subject, the body has been central to developments in legal regulation, political debate, medical interventions, scientific understanding, personal experience...

Introduction

Stephen Bending

Stephen Bending is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Women, Gardens and Eighteenth-Century Culture, and co-editor of Writing Rural England 1500-1800. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment Volume 4

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Cultural History Chapter

...The last thirty years have seen an enormous, and enormously fruitful, expansion of approaches to European gardens and to garden history of the period 1650–1800. All periodizations are of course arbitrary, and these dates are not intended...

Introduction: Theatre and the Enlightenment Matrix

Mechele Leon

Mechele Leon is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre at the University of Kansas, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment Volume 4

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Cultural History Chapter

...In the time between Marvin Carlson’s The Theatre of the French Revolution (1966) and Mark Darlow’s Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opéra (2012), something happened more than simply the passing of forty-six...

Introduction: Enlightenment Bodies

Carole Reeves

Carole Reeves is Outreach Historian at The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, UK. She is co-author of Medical Book Illustration: A Short History. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Enlightenment Volume 4

Bloomsbury Academic, 2010

Cultural History Chapter

...The Enlightenment was a time when people began to take stock of their intrinsic worth as individuals. This appraisal was different of course from ownership of one’s body. Slaves were still property, servants and apprentices were indentured,...

Gender and Sexuality: “Hairs Less in Sight”

Jayne Lewis

Jayne Lewis

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A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Enlightenment Volume 4

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Cultural History Chapter

...Enlightenment-era depictions of hair indexed fears over (racial) mixing and (black) revolution. Hair was mustered by natural historians, artists, and authors alike as a chief marker of racial difference that was also mutable and capable...

Conflict and Accommodation

Elisabeth Belmas

Elisabeth Belmas

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A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment Volume 4

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Cultural History Chapter

...“Regulating sociability and aggression, sport provided an outlet for impulses which could not be expressed elsewhere,” wrote Georges Vigarello (Vigarello 2002: 8). He viewed sport as a “factor in the order and stability” of pre-industrial...

Art

Katy Barrett

Katy Barrett

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A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment Volume 4

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Cultural History Chapter

...Introduction Art history as we know it was born in the Age of Enlightenment. The 160 years covered by this volume are bookended by two of the great works of art history: Karel van Mander’s 1604 Het Schilderboeck and Geschichte der Kunst...

Social Functions: Audiences and Authority

David Worrall

David Worrall

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A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment Volume 4

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Cultural History Chapter

...The social function of theatre is invariably linked to its audiences. These are the people who go to see performances and perpetuate theatre’s existence either by returning to see more or, in some cases, reacting with a resolve to try...

Beauty

David M. Turner

David M. Turner

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A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Enlightenment Volume 4

Bloomsbury Academic, 2010

Cultural History Chapter

...What is beauty? Why have certain bodies been idealized while others have been stigmatized as ugly or deformed? Such questions are of key importance to the history of the body.I am grateful to Carys Turner for her comments on an earlier...

Repertoire and Genres: Cultural Logics and the Trick of Theatrical Longevity

Lisa A. Freeman

Lisa A. Freeman

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A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment Volume 4

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Cultural History Chapter

...On her very first night in London and much to her youthful delight, the eponymous heroine of Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778) finds herself at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane where she witnesses a performance of Benjamin Hoadly’s The Suspicious...