Histories of the Early Modern Body

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This seminar considers the production of knowledge about the body in the early modern period. The institution of science and how the emerging "science" of the body was visualized; discourses of the erotic, the scientific and the religious; the body in varied cultural performances including the blason, devotional texts, erotica, drama etc. Texts include theoretical work on gender and sexuality. Open to graduate students only.