Literature and the body
Subtitle: essays on populations and persons
By: edited by Elaine Scarry.
Contributors: Scarry, Elaine.
Series: Selected papers from the English Institute ;; 1986, new ser., no. 12; Selected papers from the English Institute ;; new ser., no. 12.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism; Body, Human, in literature; Fertility, Human, in literature; Population in literature; American literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: The rape of narrative and the narrative of rape / Mieke Bal; title: Donne after love / Christopher Ricks; title: Donne, "but yet the body is his booke" / Elaine Scarry; title: Malthus, Godwin, Wordsworth, and the spirit of solitude / Frances Ferguson; title: Setting Byron straight / Jerome Christensen; title: Domesticating "virtue" / Caroll Smith-Rosenberg; title: The souls of white folk / Walter Benn Michaels.