Through the permeable body: medicine and ecology in early modern literature

透过可渗透的身体：早期现代文学中的医学与生态学

• 批准号: 2862722
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Birkbeck, University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2862722
• 关键词: Through; permeable; body; medicine; ecology

This project investigates the complex relationship between the permeable body and its environment in earlymodern writing and thought. It examines the implications of a body characterised by 'corporeal fluidity, openness,and porous boundaries' (Paster 1993: 8) for thinking within and beyond the human in a range of canonical andless-explored seventeenth century texts. Writers from Shakespeare and Thomas Browne to Gerrard Winstanleyand Aphra Behn explore the potential for anxiety and desire associated with humoral embodiment, particularlywhere the boundaries between people, animals and plants begin to collapse. At these points, it is possible todiscern a world more radically interconnected than our own. Situated at the intersection of the medical andecological humanities, this study asks how the permeable body informed identification with the earth and other lifeforms, and how this might have changed in response to the solidifying boundaries of enclosed land and settlercolonies.

该项目在早期的写作和思想中调查了可渗透机构与其环境之间的复杂关系。它研究了以“有形的流动性，开放性和多孔边界”为特征的身体的含义（Paster 1993：8）在人类内外思考在一系列规范和无探索的17世纪文本中。从莎士比亚和托马斯·布朗（Thomas Browne）到杰拉德·温斯坦利（Gerrard Winstanley）和阿弗拉（Aphra Behn）的作家探索了与体液体现有关的焦虑和欲望的潜力，尤其是在人们，动物和植物之间的界限开始崩溃的地方。在这些时刻，与我们自己更具根本上的互连的世界是可能的。本研究位于医学和生态学人文的交集，询问可渗透的身体如何与地球和其他生命形式的知识识别，以及这可能如何改变，以应对封闭的土地和沉降量的巩固界限。