Anxious anatomy : the conception of the human form in literary and naturalist discourse / Stefani Engelstein.

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008], ©2008.

xiv, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-314) and index.

Formative drives : Goethe's monstrous Otto ; Monkeys, humans, and other mammals ; Reproductive eyes ; Metamorphology ; Elective affinities, or, chosen correspondences -- "Natural" reproduction and reproducing nature : William Blake's bodies ; Developing embryology ; Regenerative monsters: the Polypus ; Prolific devourers in Blake ; Science and conscience -- Modular bodies : War wounds ; Kleist's aesthetic appendages ; Bodies in motion ; Disarming knowledge ; Disarticulation -- Autonomous or automata? ; Mutilations and multiplication ; Hoffmann's Cyborgs ; Instrumentality or bits and pieces -- Just animals ; Animal instinct and Mary Shelley ; Beauty and the beast: female sexuality and male materialiality ; Framing justice ; The pursuit of happiness -- Visual epistemology ; Reading race ; Coloring in austen.