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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'.

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Author:   Corinne Saunders ,  Jane Macnaughton ,  David Fuller
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.925kg
ISBN:  

9781137426734

ISBN 10:   113742673
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   17 August 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the contributors Introduction; David Fuller, Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton PART I: MIND, BODY, SOUL 1. Beautiful Ideas: The Visibility of Truth; Mark McIntosh 2. Beauty, Virtue and Danger in Medieval English Romance; Corinne Saunders 3.Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages; Elizabeth Archibald 4. Posture is Beauty; Sander Gilman PART II: ART, IDEAS, IDEALS 5. Beauty, Pain, and Violence: Through Lessing and Nietzsche to King Lear; David Fuller 6. Beauty Writes Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury; Patricia Waugh 7. 'Raising Sparks'; An Interview with Michael Symmons Roberts 8. 'More natural than nature, more artificial than art'; An Interview with David Bintley PART III: SURGERY, REPARATION, IMAGINATION 9. 'Elegant' Surgery: The Beauty of Clinical Expertise; Jane Macnaughton 10. Portraiture, Beauty, Pain; Ludmilla Jordanova 11. 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 PART IV: RESCUING BEAUTY 12. Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder: Art, Neural Plasticity and Visual Pleasure; John Onians 13. The Pendulum of Taste: Architecture and the Rise of a State Aesthetic; Simon Thurley 14. Beauty and the Sacred; Roger Scruton Bibliography Index

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Elizabeth Archibald, Durham University, UK David Bintley, Birmingham Royal Ballet, UK David Fuller, University of Durham, UK Sander L. Gilman, Emory University, USA Ludmilla Jordanova, Durham University, UK Jane Macnaughton, Durham University, UK Mark A. McIntosh, Loyola University Chicago, USA John Onians, University of East Anglia, UK Michael Symmons Roberts, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Corinne Saunders, Durham University, UK Roger Scruton, independent scholar, UK Simon Thurley, English Heritage, UK Anne Whitehead, Newcastle University, UK

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