Gross anatomies : fictions of the physical in American literature / Laura L. Behling.

Contents Embodying anatomical mutilation -- "A heap of arms, feet, and legs": rendering the body in Civil War texts -- The matter of George Dedlow -- Manufactured "naturals": artificial limbs and the reconceptualization of selfhood -- Anatomical verisimilitude and the fiction of mechanical men -- Capital offenses: the anatomy of the socioeconomic body -- Seeing for oneself: unknowable narratives of the body.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 225-237) and index.
LCCN 2007042890
ISBN9781575911199 (alk. paper)
ISBN1575911191 (alk. paper)

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