The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe

367 Pages·1997·32.272 MB·English

by  Carla Mazzio, David Hillman

The Body Parts
in
The
Body
.
In
Parts
Fantasies of Corporeality in
Early Modern Europe
EDITED BY
DAVID HILLMAN
AND
CARLA MAZZIO
Routledge New York and London
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The body in parts: fantasies of corporeality in early modern Europe /
edited by David Hillman and Carla Mazzio.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-415-91693-3 (alk. paper). - ISBN 0-415-91694-1 (pbk.:
alk. paper)
1. Body, Human, in literature. 2. European literature-History and
criticism. 3. Literature and science-Europe. 4. Literature and
culture-early modern. I. Hillman, David (David A.), 1963- .
II. Mazzio, Carla
PN56.B62B65 1997
809' .9336-DC21 97-1481
CIP
Publisher's Note
The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint
but points out that some imperfections in the original may be apparent.
Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
I. Introduction: Individual Parts
David Hillman and Carla Mazzio xi
I. Subjecting the Part
2. Members Only
Nancy f. Vickers 3
3. Out of Joint
Marjorie Garber 23
4. Sins of the Tongue
Carla Mazzio 53
5. Visceral Knowledge
David Hillman 81
6. Nervous Tension
Gail Kern Paster 107
II. Sexing the Part
7. Is the Fundament a Grave?
Jeffrey Masten 129
8. Missing the Breast
Kathryn Schwarz 147
9. The Rediscovery of the Clitoris
Katharine Park 171
10. Taming the Basilisk
Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky 195
III. Divining the Part
II. Mutilation and Meaning
Stephen Greenblatt 221
12. Fables of the Belly in Early Modern England
Michael Schoenfeldt 243
13. Sacred Heart and Secular Brain
Scott Manning Stevens 263
14. "God's handy worke"
Katherine Rowe 285
IV. Parting Words
15. Footnotes
Peter Stallybrass 313
Contributors 327
Index 331
List of Figures
Cover: Julius Casserius's plate from Adriaan van de Speigel's De humani corporis
fabrica (Venice, 1627). Courtesy of Countway Medical Library, Harvard Uni
versity.
1. Multi-layered flap anatomy with mobile shutters and detachable internal organs,
from Johann Remmelin's Catoptrum Microcosmicum (Augsburg, 1619). Reprinted
by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
2.1 From Les Blasons domestiques (Paris: Gilles Corrozet, 1539). Reproduced by per
mission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
2.2 "Blazon of the Hair;' Hecatomphile (Paris: Pierre Sergent, 1539). Reproduced by
permission of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris.
2.3 "Blazon of the Breast," Hecatomphile (Paris: Pierre Sergent, 1539). Reproduced
by permission of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris.
3. Skeletal structure from Andreas Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica (Venice,
1568). Reproduced by permission ofthe Houghton Library, Harvard University.
4.1 Emblem of the "Evill Tongue" from George Wither's Collection of Emblemes
(London, 1635). Reproduced by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard
University.
4.2 Le sort de la langue mechante, engraving by Nicoletto Rosex da Modena (1507).
Purchased from the Helen and Alice Colburn Fund. Courtesy of the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston.
4.3 Tongue head-dress from John Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis (London, 1653).
Reproduced by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Vlll ~ List of Illustrations
5. Anatomical figure from Leonardo da Vinci, The Anatomy Notebooks (circa 1500).
Reproduced by kind permission of the Royal Collection, Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II.
6. Illustration of the vessels and arteries from Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia
(London, 1631). Reproduced by permission of The Folger Shakespeare Library,
Washington, D.C.
7. Anal musculature, Julius Casserius's plate from Adriaan van de Speigel, De hu
mani corporis fabrica (Venice, 1627). Reproduced by permission of the Hough
ton Library, Harvard University.
8. Amazon from John Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis (London, 1653). Reproduced
by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
9. From Charles Estienne, De la dissection des parties du corps humain (Paris: Simon
de Colines, 1546). Reproduced by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard
University.
10. Anatomy and physiology of the eye from Robert Fludd, Tractatus secundus, De
natvrae simia seu Technica macrocosmi historia (London, 1624). Reproduced by
permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
11. Frontispiece to John Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis (London, 1653). Courtesy
of the Bancroft Library.
12. Self-demonstrating anatomy from Juan Valverde, Historia de la composition del
cuerpo humano (Rome, 1556). Courtesy of Countway Medical Library, Harvard
University.
13. Anonymous print, 1685. Reproduced by permission of the Bibliotheque Natio
nale de France, Paris.
14.1 Portrait of Vesalius from Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica (Venice, 1543).
Reproduced by permission of Yale University, Harvey Cushing/John Hay
Whitney Medical Library.
14.2 Muscles of the hand and forearm from Govard Bidloo, Anatomia Humani Cor
poris (Amsterdam, 1685). Reproduced by permission of Yale University, Harvey
Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library.
14.3 Self-demonstrating anatomy from Juan Valverde, Historia de la composition del
cuerpo humano (Rome, 1556). Reproduced by permission of Yale University,
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library.
14.4 Royal College of Physicians shield of arms, 1546. Reproduced by permission of
the Royal College of Physicians, London.
15. From Ottavio Scarlatini, Homo et ejus partes figuratus et symbolicus (Bologna,
1684). Reproduced by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Acknowledgments
We would first of all like to thank our "organ donors," all of whom gave us
not only wonderful essays but also warm and enthusiastic reactions to the
idea of this book. We are especially grateful to Marge Garber for her encour
agement, advice, and unstinting support from the very beginning of the pro
ject. Many thanks to those at Routledge who helped with the book, especially
Bill Germano for his patience and wit, and Christine Cipriani for her careful
editing. We are grateful to Rachen Tiven for indexing the volume with skill
and surprisingly good cheer. The staff at Harvard's Countway Medical
Library have been unfailingly friendly and helpful. Of the many who have
supported our work on the book, we would particularly like to thank Stanley
Cavell, Gwynne Evans, Daria Keynan, Jeffrey Masten, Ruth Nevo, Derek
Pearsall, Anne Lake Prescott, Sharonda Rivera, John Tobin, and the members
of the Harvard Renaissance Colloquium. Most of all, for their warmth,
humor, and inspiration, we thank Linda Schlossberg and Alexis Susman.
1. "Multi-layered flap anatomy with mobile shutters and detachable internal organs;'
from Johann Remmelin's Catoptrum Microcosmicum (Augsburg, 1619).