Table of Contents

Acknowledgements A Note on the Text Introduction PART I: THE SUBJECT'S NEW BODY Well-tempered Bodies: Self-Government and Subjectivity Imagined Individuals: A Body of One's Own Gendered Objects: Sexualizing the Female Body PART II: THE BODY OF THE NATION Time, Space and the Body in the Narrative of the Nation Internal Imperialism: Domestic Loyalties Astraea's Substitute: Ireland and the Quest for National Unity Female Territories: Textualizing the Body of the Other Notes Index Bibliography Index

About the Author

Susanne Scholz is Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at Paderborn University in Germany.

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