Human body in literature
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Walt Whitman and the body beautiful
Venus & mars
Disease, desire, and the body in Victorian women's popular novels
The corporeal self
Fictions of disease in early modern England
Suffocating Mothers
The Irish novel at the end of the twentieth century
Literary anatomies
Nerves and narratives
The incarnational art of Flannery O'Connor
Eating the Black body
Chaucer's Pardoner and gender theory
Ventriloquized bodies
Maternal body and voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith
Indeterminate bodies
Heart
Skin deep, spirit strong
Illness, gender, and writing
The public is invited to dance
Thinking through the body
Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction
Bodies of pain
Gender, desire, and sexuality in T.S. Eliot
Richard Wagner and the anti-Semitic imagination
Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels
The rest is silence
Sexuality in Victorian fiction
Body language in literature
Feminist approaches to the body in medieval literature
America and the black body
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