Editorial: Cambridge University Press
Colección: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Número de páginas: 272 págs. 15.0 x 22.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 01-10-2023
EAN: 9781009001267
ISBN: 978-1-009-00126-7
Precio (sin IVA): 30,74 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 31,97 €
Can we really trust the things our bodies tell us about the world? This work reveals how deeply intertwined cultural practices of art and science questioned the authority of the human body in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on Henry Fuseli, Anne-Louis Girodet and Philippe de Loutherbourg, it argues that romantic artworks participated in a widespread crisis concerning the body as a source of reliable scientific knowledge.