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xviii, 560 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"From theories of conception and concepts of species to museum displays of male genitalia and the politics of breastmilk, The Secrets of Generation is an interdisciplinary examination of the many aspects of reproduction in the eighteenth century. Exploring the theme of generation from the perspective of histories of medicine, literature, biology, technology, and culture, this collection offers a range of cutting-edge approaches. Its twenty-four contributors, scholars from across Europe and North America, bring an international perspective to discuss reproduction in British, French, American, German, and Italian contexts. The definitive collection on eighteenth-century generation and its many milieus, The Secrets of Generation will be an essential resource for studying this topic for years to come."-- From publisher's website. |
| Contents |
Generation, species, breeding. Reproducing species / Staffan Müller-Wille -- Cultures and politics of preformationism in eighteenth-century Italy / Ivano dal Prete -- Theories of generation and the history of life / Peter J. Bowler -- Born to virtue : ideas of generation and the eighteenth-century elites / John C. Waller -- Improving reproduction : articulations of breeding and "race-mixing" in French and German discourse (1750-1800) / Susanne Lettow -- New attention to incest and inbreeding as ways of reproduction around 1800 : a case study of the Mignon episode in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister / Christine Lehleiter -- Fetus, child, mother. Changing views on generation : images of the unborn / Sebastian Pranghofer -- The problem of maternal violence : anatomy, forensic medicine, and the mind / Corinna Wagner -- Birth anomaly and childhood disability / David M. Turner -- Motherhood, hysteria, and the eighteenth-century woman writer / Heather Meek -- Mothers and others : the politics of lactation in medical consultation letters addressed to Samuel-Auguste Tissot / Sonja Boon -- Reproduction in British women's novels of the 1790s / Jennifer Golightly -- Pathologies, body parts, display. "Unfit for generation" : body size and reproduction / Sarah Toulalan -- Deformity of the maternal pelvis in late eighteenth-century Britain / Pam Lieske -- The debris of life : diseased ovaries in eighteenth-century medicine / Sally Frampton -- Intestinal chaos : tapeworms, dead flesh, and reproduction during the eighteenth century / Lianne McTavish -- A bit exposed : displays of male genitals / Darren N. Wagner -- Attitudes, tropes, satire. The Aristotle texts, sex, and the American woman / Marcia D. Nichols -- Eve's choices : procreation, reproduction, and the politics of generation in Paradise Lost / Corrinne Harol and Jessica MacQueen -- Making babies : eighteenth-century attitudes towards conception, reproduction, and childbirth / Julie Peakman and Sarah Watkins -- Makind the rounds in the old and new Foundling Hospitals for Wit : (mis)conceptions about conceiving / Donald W. Nichol -- Panspermist jokes, reproductive technologies, and virgin births : some enlightenment Luciniades / George Rousseau. |
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Committed to retain 20170101 20321231 COPPUL SPAN Monograph BKCC |
| Subject |
Human reproduction -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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Reproduction.
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Reproductive Behavior -- history.
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Pregnancy.
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Mother-Child Relations.
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Medicine in Literature.
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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
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History, 18th Century.
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MEDICAL -- Physiology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
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Human reproduction. (OCoLC)fst00963221
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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Fortpflanzung.
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Sexualität.
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Geburt.
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Familie.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1799
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Stephanson, Raymond, editor.
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Wagner, Darren N., 1984- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Secrets of generation. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2015 9781442646964 (OCoLC)907661867 |
| ISBN |
9781442666924 (electronic book) |
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