The body and the arts Polyclitus among the philosophers : canons of classical beauty George Boys Stones Body as graced or vile : tensions in the Christian vision David Brown The smoke of the soul : anatomy medical spirits and the Rete mirabile : 1538 1643 Richard Sugg The fizziness business Steven Connor Flesh revealed : medicine art and anatomy Jane Macnaughton The affective body : love virtue and vision in English medieval literature Corinne Saunders Victorian literature and bringing the body back from the dead Francis OGorman Modernist bodies : coming to our senses Ulrika Maude Writing the body : modernism and postmodernism Patricia Waugh Detective fiction and the body P.D. James (in conversation with Corinne Saunders) Pygmalion painted flesh and the female body Martin Postle Satyrs spiders jellyfish and mutants : Ovidian metamorphosis in contemporary art Marina Warner Body space time Antony Gormley Une écriture corporelle : the dancer in the text of Mallarmé and Yeats Susan Jones The erotic and the sacred body in opera : the Venusberg to Monsalvat and beyond David Fuller Celluloid formaldehyde : the body on film Judith Buchanan