Textual bodies : changing boundaries of literary representation / edited by Lori Hope Lefkovitz.
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State University of New York Press,
©1997.
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| Series: | SUNY series, the body in culture, history, and religion.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : textual bodies; changing boundaries of literary representation / Lori Hope Lefkovitz
- Sappho's body in pieces / Page duBois
- Aristotle, gynecology, and the body sick with desire / Robert Con Davis
- Cross-dressing in medieval romance / Roberta Davidson
- Devotion and defilement : the Blessed Virgin Mary and the corporeal hagiographics of Chaucer's Prioress's tale / Richard Rambuss
- The somaticized text : corporeal semiotic in a late medieval female hagiography / Sheila Delany
- Shape-shifting : fashion, gender, and metamorphosis in eighteenth-century England / Deborah Laycock
- Mind over matter : sexuality and where the "body happens to be" in the Alice books / Donald Rackin
- Oeuvres intertwined : Walter Pater and Antoine Watteau / Gita Rajan
- Florence Nightingale and the negation of the body / Miriam Bailin
- Slapping women : Ibsen's Nora, Strindberg's Julie, and Freud's Dora / Freddie Rokem
- The "mutilating body" and the decomposing text : recovery in Kathy Acker's Great expectations / Martina Sciolino.