Gabbard, D. Christopher
(ed.)
Mintz, Susannah B.
(ed.)
Editorial: Bloomsbury
Colección: The Cultural Histories Series
Número de páginas: 200 págs. 16.9 x 24.4 cm
Fecha de edición: 16-05-2024
EAN: 9781350436732
ISBN: 978-1-350-43673-2
Precio (sin IVA): 34,75 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 36,14 €
During the long eighteenth century, new ideas from aesthetics and the emerging scientific disciplines of physics, biology and zoology contributed to changing fundamental notions about human form, function and ability. The interrelated concepts of the natural and the beautiful coalesced into a hegemonic ideology of form, one which defined communal standards regarding which aspects of human appearance and ability would be considered typical and socially acceptable and which would not.