TY - BOOK AU - Goss,Erin ED - Bucknell University Press. TI - Revealing bodies: anatomy, allegory, and the grounds of knowledge in the long eighteenth century T2 - Transits : literature, thought & culture 1650-1850 SN - 1611483956 AV - PN56.B2 G67 2012 U1 - 820.9/3561 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Lanham, MD PB - Bucknell University Press KW - Blake, William, KW - Burke, Edmund, KW - Tighe, Mary, KW - Tighe, Mary Blachford, KW - Blake, William KW - Burke, Edmund KW - Tighe, Mary KW - Human body in literature KW - Human body (Philosophy) KW - Human Body KW - Anatomy KW - history KW - Knowledge KW - Corps humain dans la littérature KW - Corps humain (Philosophie) KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Körper KW - Motiv KW - gnd KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-216) and index; Naming the body -- bodies without bodies: Burke's sublime corporeality -- What is called corporeal: Blake and the body's origin -- Bodies of meaning: Tighe and the body's apotheosis -- Conclusion: the body as allegory N2 - Revealing Bodies considers three thinkers not often read together in order to ask a question with continued relevance in the present: how is it that we claim to know the body? Reading their work in relation to their contemporary anatomical discourse as well as our own contemporary anatomical spectacle, the book explores a question with wide-ranging stakes both for those with specialized interest in eighteenth and nineteenth-century culture and with a broader interest in bodily representation UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=503431 ER -