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The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine

  • Corinne Saunders
  • Jane Macnaughton
  • David Fuller
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      David Fuller, Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton
      Pages 1-17

  3. Mind, Body, Soul

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 19-19
      PDF
    2. Beautiful Ideas: The Visibility of Truth
      Mark A. McIntosh
      Pages 21-34
    3. Beauty, Virtue and Danger in Medieval English Romance
      Corinne Saunders
      Pages 35-52
    4. Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages
      Elizabeth Archibald
      Pages 53-71
    5. Posture is Beauty
      Sander L. Gilman
      Pages 72-83

  4. Art, Ideas, Ideals

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 85-85
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    2. Beauty, Pain and Violence: Through Lessing and Nietzsche to King Lear
      David Fuller
      Pages 87-107
    3. Beauty Writes Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury
      Patricia Waugh
      Pages 108-128
    4. ‘Raising Sparks’: An Interview with Michael Symmons Roberts
      Michael Symmons Roberts, David Fuller
      Pages 129-149
    5. ‘More natural than nature, more artificial than art’: An Interview with David Bintley
      David Bintley, David Fuller
      Pages 150-172

  5. Surgery, Reparation, Imagination

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 173-173
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    2. ‘Elegant’ Surgery: The Beauty of Clinical Expertise
      Jane Macnaughton
      Pages 175-198
    3. Portraiture, Beauty, Pain
      Ludmilla Jordanova
      Pages 199-216
    4. War and Beauty: The Act of Unmasking in Pat Barker’s Toby’s Room and Louisa Young’s My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You
      Anne Whitehead
      Pages 217-234

  6. Rescuing Beauty

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 235-235
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    2. Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder: Art, Neural Plasticity and Visual Pleasure
      John Onians
      Pages 237-253
    3. The Pendulum of Taste: Architecture and the Rise of a State Aesthetic
      Simon Thurley
      Pages 254-270
    4. Beauty and the Sacred
      Roger Scruton
      Pages 271-278
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 279-292
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About this book

Introduction

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.

Keywords

Beauty arts literature philosophy theology visual arts dance ballet opera architecture drama poetry choreography culture values state medicine surgery gender cosmetic surgery body cultural history essay Friedrich Nietzsche history of literature Imagination Medieval Literature

Editors and affiliations

  • Corinne Saunders
    • 1
  • Jane Macnaughton
    • 1
  • David Fuller
    • 1
  1. 1.Durham UniversityUK

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