The Body and the Arts

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; C.Saunders, U.Maude  and J.Macnaughton PART I: THINKING THE BODY Polyclitus among the Philosophers: Canons of Classical Beauty; G.Boys-Stones Body as Graced or Vile: Tensions in the Christian Vision; D.Brown The Smoke of the Soul: Anatomy, Medical Spirits and the Rete Mirabile: 1538-1643; R.Sugg The Fizziness Business; S.Connor Flesh Revealed: Medicine, Art and Anatomy; J.Macnaughton PART II: WRITING THE BODY The Affective Body: Love, Virtue and Vision in English Medieval Literature; C.Saunders Victorian Literature and Bringing the Body Back from the Dead; F.O'Gorman Modernist Bodies: Coming to Our Senses;  U.Maude Writing the Body: Modernism and Postmodernism;  P.Waugh Detective Fiction and the Body;  P.D.James (in conversation with C.Saunders) PART III: VIEWING THE BODY Pygmalion, Painted Flesh, and the Female Body; M.Postle Satyrs, Harpies, Jellyfish, and Mutants: Ovidian Metamorphosis in Contemporary Art; M.Warner Body, Space, Time; A.Gormley Une écriture corporelle: The Dancer in the Text of Mallarmé and Yeats; S.Jones The Erotic and the Sacred Body in Opera: the Venusberg to Monsalvat – and beyond;  D.Fuller Celluloid Formaldehyde? The Body on Film; J.Buchanan Index