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Carol Thomas Neely Koepke-Nelson, Yvette Michelle 2015-09-25T20:15:03Z 2015-09-25T20:15:03Z 10000-01-01 2003 2003 This project argues that the seventeenth-century transition from the humoral body to the modern, anatomical body depended on constructions of gender/sex. I examine this process in The Faerie Queene Book 2, The Legend of Temperance (1596), Phineas Fletcher's The Purple Island (1633), Francis Bacon's New Atlantis (1627), and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World (1655) to reveal its incompleteness and contradictions. In particular, the making of the modern body relied on the very humoral theory and cosmology of correspondence to which it is often opposed. This dissertation restores vital context---Galenic medicine's understanding of temperance, early modern models of spirits and matter---wholly ignored in critical reactions to these works, and contests the standard account of the modern body's emergence as the triumph of the empirical truth of anatomy. Analyzing instead how the modern body is constructed challenges usual assumptions that scientific discourse is distinct from the literary, that the modern subject depends on objectification, and that gender/sex is an add-on to both bodies and textual analysis. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:15:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3101888.pdf: 16400115 bytes, checksum: f81e1653ba36eaf34bd508de1f6a29cf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 82674 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 339 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/81393 (MiAaPQ)AAI3101888 eng Literature, English Allegories of Mastery: Sex, Science, and the Making of the Modern Body in Renaissance Utopias text English English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.