Missing the breast : gender, fantasy, and the body in the German Enlightenment / Simon Richter.

Author/creator Richter, Simon
Format Book
Publication InfoSeattle : University of Washington Press, ©2006.
Descriptionix, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesLiterary conjugations
Literary conjugations. ^A584288
Contents Introduction: men with breasts, women without -- Breasts on a platter and the bosom of Jesus: the parameters of fantasy -- Phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and the breast -- Ut in pene: the medical and moral discourses of the breast -- Wieland's busted tropes -- Sophie von la Roche and the communities of the breast -- Revealing the phallus, concealing the breast: the revolutionary fictions of Wilhelm Heinse and Therese Huber -- The breast in ruins: Heinrich von Kleist and the language of the breast -- Being the breast, being without: Philip Roth, Matuschka, and Deena Metzger.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 329-345) and index.
LCCN 2005034675
ISBN0295986115 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9780295986111

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PT289 .R59 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold