The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Beautiful Ideas: The Visibility of Truth....Pages 21-34
Beauty, Virtue and Danger in Medieval English Romance....Pages 35-52
Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages....Pages 53-71
Posture is Beauty....Pages 72-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Beauty, Pain and Violence: Through Lessing and Nietzsche to King Lear....Pages 87-107
Beauty Writes Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury....Pages 108-128
‘Raising Sparks’: An Interview with Michael Symmons Roberts....Pages 129-149
‘More natural than nature, more artificial than art’: An Interview with David Bintley....Pages 150-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
‘Elegant’ Surgery: The Beauty of Clinical Expertise....Pages 175-198
Portraiture, Beauty, Pain....Pages 199-216
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....Pages 217-234
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder: Art, Neural Plasticity and Visual Pleasure....Pages 237-253
The Pendulum of Taste: Architecture and the Rise of a State Aesthetic....Pages 254-270
Beauty and the Sacred....Pages 271-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-292