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This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the body in literature, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

The human body has been depicted in a variety of ways across a range of cultural and historical locations. It has been described, variously, as a biological ent

Polemically set against the weightlessness of much recent discourse, this book explores the body as the ultimate testing ground for debates over language's abil

Drawing on a range of texts from the seventeenth century to the present, The Female Body in Medicine and Literature explores accounts of motherhood, fertility,

Dance and literary studies have traditionally been at odds: dancers and dance critics have understood academic analysis to be overly invested in the mind at the