| Description |
1 online resource (x, 291 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
SUNY series, the body in culture, history, and religion
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SUNY series, the body in culture, history, and religion.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 -- 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 -- "Mutilating body" and the decomposing text : recovery in Kathy Acker's Great expectations / Martina Sciolino. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lefkovitz, Lori Hope, 1956-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Textual bodies. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1997 0791431614 (DLC) 96021758 (OCoLC)34730986 |
| ISBN |
0585077711 (electronic book) |
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9780585077710 (electronic book) |
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0791431614 |
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0791431622 |
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