This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the body in literature, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

The human body has been depicted in a variety of ways across a range of cultural and historical locations. It has been described, variously, as a biological ent

Polemically set against the weightlessness of much recent discourse, this book explores the body as the ultimate testing ground for debates over language's abil

In the four essays included in this volume, contributors critically examine the relationship between material and bodily aspects of text. Frese and O'Keeffe exp

This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally r