Body & text in the eighteenth century= Body and text in the eighteenth century/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, Calif.:
Stanford University Press,
1994
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-341) and index. Contents: Introduction: Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century / Veronica Kellyand Dokothea Von Mucke -- The Limping Woman and the Public Sphere /Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook -- Wit's Breaks / Neil Saccamano -- Locke'sEyes, Swift's Spectacles / Veronica Kelly -- The charm'd eye / Peter DeBolla -- Overloaded Portraits: The Excesses of Character andCountenance / Deidre Lynch -- Cosmetic Poetics: Coloring Faces in theEighteenth Century / Tassie Gwilliam -- The Powers of Horror and theMagic of Euphemism in Lessing's Laokoon and How the AncientsRepresented Death / Dorothea Von Mucke -- Morphisms of the PhantasmaticBody: Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther / David F. Wellbery --Deconstruction of the Hermeneutical Body: Kleist and the Discourse ofClassical Aesthetics / Helmut J. Schneider -- Goethe's Clavigo: TheBody as an 'Unorthographic' Sign / Susan Gustafson -- Disfiguring theVictim's Body in Sade's Justine / Thomas Dipiero -- Mrs. Robinson andthe Masquerade of Womanliness / Chris Cullens |
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| Physical Description: | x, 349 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0804722684 0804722692 |