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Literature and the body : essays on populations and persons /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Scarry, Elaine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1988]
Series:Selected papers from the English Institute ; new ser., no. 12.
Subjects:
English literature > History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Fertility, Human, in literature.
Population in literature.
American literature > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • The rape of narrative and the narrative of rape / Mieke Bal
  • Donne after love / Christopher Ricks
  • Donne, "but yet the body is his booke" / Elaine Scarry
  • Malthus, Godwin, Wordsworth, and the spirit of solitude / Frances Ferguson
  • Setting Byron straight / Jerome Christensen
  • Domesticating "virtue" / Caroll Smith-Rosenberg
  • The souls of white folk / Walter Benn Michaels.