The Body and the Arts

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Polyclitus among the Philosophers: Canons of Classical Beauty....Pages 11-24
Body as Graced or Vile: Tensions in the Christian Vision....Pages 25-38
The Smoke of the Soul: Anatomy, Medical Spirits and the Rete Mirabile: 1538–1643....Pages 39-54
The Fizziness Business....Pages 55-71
Flesh Revealed: Medicine, Art and Anatomy....Pages 72-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
The Affective Body: Love, Virtue and Vision in English Medieval Literature....Pages 87-102
Victorian Literature and Bringing the Body Back from the Dead....Pages 103-115
Modernist Bodies: Coming to Our Senses....Pages 116-130
Writing the Body: Modernism and Postmodernism....Pages 131-147
Detective Fiction and the Body....Pages 148-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Pygmalion, Painted Flesh, and the Female Body....Pages 165-185
Satyrs, Spiders, Jellyfish, and Mutants: Ovidian Metamorphosis in Contemporary Art....Pages 186-208
Body, Space, Time....Pages 209-236
‘Une écriture corporelle’: The Dancer in the Text of Mallarmé and Yeats....Pages 237-253
The Erotic and the Sacred Body in Opera: The Venusberg to Monsalvat — and Beyond....Pages 254-269
Celluloid Formaldehyde? The Body on Film....Pages 270-286
Back Matter....Pages 287-292