At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors Introduction: the Dislocation of the Human; E.Fudge, R.Gilbert, S.J.Wiseman Humanity at a Price: Erasmus, Budand the Poverty of Philology; A.Stewart Animal Passions and Human Science: Shame, Blushing and Nakedness in Early Modern Europe and the New World; B.Cummings Bodily Regimen and Fear of the Beast: 'Plausibility' in Renaissance Domestic Tragedy; M.Healy Midwifery and the New Science in the Seventeenth Century: Language, Print and the Theatre; J.Sanders Calling Creatures By Their True Names: Bacon, the New Science and the Beast in Man; E.Fudge Cartographic Arrest: Harvey, Raleigh, Drayton and the Mapping of Sense; S.Speed 'The Doubtful Traveller': Mathematics, Metaphor, and the Cartographic Origins of the American Frontier; J.Edwards Seeing and Knowing: Science, Pornography and Early Modern Hermaphrodites; R.Gilbert 'Forms Such as Never Were in Nature': The Renaissance Cyborg; J.Sawday Bodies Without Souls; The Case of Peter the Wild Boy; M.Newton Monstrous Perfectibility: Ape-Human Transformations in Hobbes, Bulwer, Rousseau; S.Wiseman The Economy of Nymphomania: Luxury, Virtue, Sentiment and Desire in Mid-Eighteenth Century Medical Discourse; M.Peace Index