The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine

List of illustrations<BR>Acknowledgements<BR>Notes on the contributors<BR>Introduction; David Fuller, Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton<BR>PART I: MIND, BODY, SOUL<BR>1. Beautiful Ideas: The Visibility of Truth; Mark McIntosh<BR>2. Beauty, Virtue and Danger in Medieval English Romance; Corinne Saunders <BR>3.Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages; Elizabeth Archibald <BR>4. Posture is Beauty; Sander Gilman <BR>PART II: ART, IDEAS, IDEALS<BR>5. Beauty, Pain, and Violence: Through Lessing and Nietzsche to King Lear; David Fuller<BR>6. Beauty Writes Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury; Patricia Waugh <BR>7. 'Raising Sparks'; An Interview with Michael Symmons Roberts <BR>8. 'More natural than nature, more artificial than art'; An Interview with David Bintley <BR>PART III: SURGERY, REPARATION, IMAGINATION<BR>9. 'Elegant' Surgery: The Beauty of Clinical Expertise; Jane Macnaughton <BR>10. Portraiture, Beauty, Pain; Ludmilla Jordanova <BR>11. War and Beauty: The Act of Unmasking in Pat Barker's Toby's Room and Louisa Young's My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You; Anne Whitehead <BR>PART IV: RESCUING BEAUTY<BR>12. Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder: Art, Neural Plasticity and Visual Pleasure; John Onians <BR>13. The Pendulum of Taste: Architecture and the Rise of a State Aesthetic; Simon Thurley <BR>14. Beauty and the Sacred; Roger Scruton <BR>Bibliography<BR>Index<BR>