Body and Text in the Eighteenth CenturyVeronica Kelly, Dorothea von Mücke Stanford University Press, 1994 M09 1 - 368 pages Twelve scholars from the fields of English, French, and German literature here examine the complex ways in which the human body becomes the privileged semiotic model through which eighteenth-century culture defines its political and conceptual centers. In making clear that the deployment of the body varies tremendously depending on what is meant by the 'human body', the essays draw on popular literature, poetics and aesthetics, garden architecture, physiognomy, beauty manuals, pornography and philosophy, as well as on canonical works in the genres of the novel and the drama. |
Contents
The Limping Woman and the Public Sphere | 23 |
Wits Breaks | 45 |
Lockes Eyes Swifts Spectacles | 68 |
The charmd eye | 89 |
The Excesses | 112 |
Coloring Faces | 144 |
The Powers of Horror and the Magic | 163 |
The Body as | 229 |
Disfiguring the Victims Body | 247 |
Mrs Robinson and the Masquerade | 266 |
Notes | 293 |
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