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Human body in literature

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Walt Whitman and the body beautiful

Harold Aspiz

1980

Venus & mars

Philippa C. Maddern, Andrew Lynch

1995

Disease, desire, and the body in Victorian women's popular novels

Pamela K. Gilbert

1997

The corporeal self

Sharon Cameron

1981

Fictions of disease in early modern England

Margaret Healy

2001

Suffocating Mothers

Janet Adelman

1992

The Irish novel at the end of the twentieth century

Jennifer M. Jeffers

2002

Literary anatomies

Delese Wear

1994

Nerves and narratives

Peter Melville Logan

1997

The incarnational art of Flannery O'Connor

Christina Bieber Lake

2005

Eating the Black body

Carlyle Van Thompson

2006

Chaucer's Pardoner and gender theory

Robert Stuart Sturges

2000

Ventriloquized bodies

Janet L. Beizer

1994

Maternal body and voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith

Paula Gallant Eckard

2002

Indeterminate bodies

Naomi Segal, Lib Taylor, Roger Cook

2003

Heart

Gail Godwin

2001

Skin deep, spirit strong

Kimberly Wallace-Sanders

2002

Illness, gender, and writing

Mary Burgan

1994

The public is invited to dance

Harriet Scott Chessman

1989

Thinking through the body

Jane Gallop

1988

Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction

Sarah Sceats

2000

Bodies of pain

Scott E. Pincikowski

2002

Gender, desire, and sexuality in T.S. Eliot

Cassandra Laity, Nancy K. Gish

2004

Richard Wagner and the anti-Semitic imagination

Marc A. Weiner

1995

Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels

Laurence Talairach-vielmas

2007

The rest is silence

Robert N. Watson

1994

Sexuality in Victorian fiction

Dennis W. Allen

1993

Body language in literature

Barbara Korte

1997

Feminist approaches to the body in medieval literature

Sarah Stanbury

1993

America and the black body

Carol E. Henderson

2009

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