The eighteenth-century body : art, history, literature, medicine / Angelica Goodden (ed.).

Oxford : Peter Lang, [2002], ©2002.

188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"... proceedings of a conference on 'The eighteenth-century body' held at St. Hilda's College, Oxford, in July 2001." -- p. [7].

Body as fiction : eighteenth-century tales of the orient / Ros Ballaster -- Marivaux's L'Ile des esclaves and the anthropology of ritual : status reversal and elevation, liminality and communitas / Guy Callan -- La Semiotisation du corps feminin dans le roman libertin du XVIII siecle / Anne Deneys-Tunney -- Les Couleurs du corps : roman pornographique et debats esthetiques au XVIII siecle / Michel Delon -- Priapic Passages and 'Trading in trifles' : penis and pornography in the eighteenth century / George Rousseau -- The burlesque body in Diderot's Les Bijoux indiscrets / Elena Russo -- You are not necessarily what you eat / Beatrice Fink -- The scholar's body : health, sexuality and the ambiguous pleasures of thinking in eighteenth-century France / Anne C. Vila -- Angelica Kauffman : attenuating the body / Angelica Goodden -- Reinventing relics and Napoleon's regal body / Susan L. Siegfried.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chiefly in English; two contributions in French.