Literature and the body : essays on populations and persons / edited by Elaine Scarry.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1988], ©1988.

xvii, 220 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

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.

Includes bibliographies