A Centre of Wonders : : The Body in Early America / / ed. by Janet Moore Lindman, Michele Lise Tarter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Brown, Kathleen M.,; Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock,; Eden, Trudy,; Finch, Martha L.,; George, Robert Blair St.,; Lindman, Janet Moore,; Melish, Joanne Pope,; Miller, Jacquelyn C.,; Nash, Alice,; Shoemaker, Nancy,; Smith, Todd D.,; Spear, Jennifer M.,; Stabile, Susan M.,; Tarter, Michele Lise,; Toulouse, Teresa A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Lindman, Janet Moore,; Tarter, Michele Lise,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 7 halftones, 1 line drawing

Images of bodies and bodily practices abound in early America: from spirit possession, Fasting Days, and infanticide to running the gauntlet, going "naked as a sign," flogging, bundling, and scalping. All have implications for the study of gender, sexuality, masculinity, illness, the "...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• "The earthly frame, a minute fabrick, a Centre of Wonders"
• I THE PERMEABILITY OF BODIES AND ENVIRONMENTS
• Witchcraft, Bodily Affliction, and Domestic Space in Seventeenth-Century New England
• Food, Assimilation, and the Malleability of the Human Body in Early Virginia
• "Civilized" Bodies and the "Savage" Environment of Early New Plymouth
• The Body Politic and the Body Somatic
• II DEMARCATIONS OF THE BODY: FLUIDITY AND CONTAINMENT
• Murderous Uncleanness
• "Clean of blood, without stain or mixture"
• A "Doctrine of Signatures"
• III BODIES IN PERFORMANCE: CORPOREAL MANIFESTATIONS OF IDENTITY
• Nursing Fathers and Brides of Christ
• Quaking in the Light
• "Antic Deportments and Indian Postures"
• The Body Baptist
• IV BODIES IN DISCOURSE: RACE, IDEOLOGY, AND PUBLIC RHETORIC
• Hannah Duston's Bodies
• Body Language
• Emancipation and the Em-bodiment of "Race"
• The Problematics of Absence
• Selected Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index