The Body And The Arts

The Body and the Arts focuses on the dynamic relation between the body and the arts: the body as inspiration, subject, symbol and medium. Contributors from a variety of disciplines explore this relation across a range of periods and art forms, spanning medicine, literature from the classical period to the present, and visual and performing arts.

The Body and the Arts focuses on the dynamic relation between the body and the arts: the body as inspiration, subject, symbol and medium. Contributors from a variety of disciplines explore this relation across a range of periods and art forms, spanning medicine, literature from the classical period to the present, and visual and performing arts.

CORINNE SAUNDERS is Professor of English Literature in the University of Durham, UK. She specializes in medieval literature and the history of ideas. Her publications include The Forest of Medieval Romance: Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England, two edited books on Chaucer, and A Companion to Romance. She has recently completed a new monograph, Magic in Medieval English Romance.

ULRIKA MAUDE is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Durham, UK. She is the author of Beckett, Technology and the Body and co-editor of Beckett and Phenomenology.

JANE MACNAUGHTON is Director of the Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine and Senior Lecturer in medical education at Durham University, UK. She is also a GP who currently works in gynaecology. Her main research interest is in medical humanities, especially literature and medicine, and she has published in this as well as in philosophy and medicine. Her books include Clinical Judgement: Evidence in Practice (with Robin Downie) and an edited volume (with Corinne Saunders), Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture.