Table of Contents
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Book Overview
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Chapter 1
Introduction
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Chapter 2
Polyclitus among the Philosophers: Canons of Classical Beauty
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Chapter 3
Body as Graced or Vile: Tensions in the Christian Vision
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Chapter 4
The Smoke of the Soul: Anatomy, Medical Spirits and the Rete Mirabile : 1538–1643
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Chapter 5
The Fizziness Business
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Chapter 6
Flesh Revealed: Medicine, Art and Anatomy
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Chapter 7
The Affective Body: Love, Virtue and Vision in English Medieval Literature
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Chapter 8
Victorian Literature and Bringing the Body Back from the Dead
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Chapter 9
Modernist Bodies: Coming to Our Senses
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Chapter 10
Writing the Body: Modernism and Postmodernism
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Chapter 11
Detective Fiction and the Body
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Chapter 12
Pygmalion, Painted Flesh, and the Female Body
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Chapter 13
Satyrs, Spiders, Jellyfish, and Mutants: Ovidian Metamorphosis in Contemporary Art
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Chapter 14
Body, Space, Time
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Chapter 15
‘Une écriture corporelle’: The Dancer in the Text of Mallarmé and Yeats
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Chapter 16
The Erotic and the Sacred Body in Opera: The Venusberg to Monsalvat — and Beyond
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Chapter 17
Celluloid Formaldehyde? The Body on Film
Attention for Chapter 4:
The Smoke of the Soul: Anatomy, Medical Spirits and the Rete Mirabile : 1538–1643