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LITERARY CONJUGATIONS Richard T. Gray, Series Editor The Literary Conjugations series investigates literary artifacts in their cultural and historical environments. Through comparative investigations and case studies across a wide array of national literatures, it highlights the interdisciplinary character of literary studies and explores how literary production extends into, influences, and refracts multiple domains of intellectual and cultural life. W. G. Sebald—A Critical Companion Edited by j. j. long and anne whitehead Speaking Havoc: Social Suªering and South Asian Narratives ramu nagappan Missing the Breast: Gender, Fantasy, and the Body in the German Enlightenment simon richter MISSING THE BREAST GENDER, FANTASY, AND THE BODY IN THE GERMAN ENLIGHTENMENT SIMON RICHTER university of washington press seattle & london © 2006 by the University of Washington Press Printed in the United States of America Design by Audrey Seretha Meyer 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 5 4 3 2 1 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. University of Washington Press P.O. Box 50096, Seattle, WA 98145 www.washington.edu/uwpress Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Richter, Simon. Missing the breast : gender, fantasy and the body in the German Enlightenment / Simon Richter. p. cm. — (Literary conjugations) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-295-98611-5 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. German literature—18th century—History and criticism. 2. Breast in literature. I. Title. II. Series. pt289.r59 2006 830.9'3561—dc22 2005034675 The paper used in this publication is acid-free and 90 percent recycled from at least 50 percent post-consumer waste. It meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Credits: Chapter 3 is a revised version of “Wet-Nursing, Onanism, and the Sexuality of the Breast in Eighteenth-Century Germany,” from the Journal of the History of Sexuality 7:1, pp. 1-22; © 1996 by the University of Texas Press. p. 267: “Archaic Torso of Apollo,” from Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by M. D. Herter Norton, is reprinted here by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. © 1938 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.; renewed 1966 by M. D. Herter Norton. Images by Matuschka are reproduced by permission; www.matushchka.net ...

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