Peculiar Bodies: Stories and Histories
Questioning the body as the historical subject of experiences “peculiar” to it, this series examines the myriad forms of the body—healthy, diseased, athletic, crippled, alluring, pious—across all disciplines, periods, and geographic contexts. The series embraces a range of historical, literary, and philosophical methodologies and theories around the idea of “the body.”
Titles in this Series
The Dean Disordered
Jonathan Swift and Humoral Medicine
Paul William Child
The Importance of Being Different
Disability in Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales
Chris Foss
They Run with Surprising Swiftness
The Women Athletes of Early Modern Britain
Peter Radford
Melville’s Other Lives
Bodies on Trial in The Piazza Tales
Christopher Sten
Beyond the Moulin Rouge
The Life and Legacy of La Goulue
Will Visconti
Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals
Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy
Teresa Michals
Sapphic Crossings
Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Ula Lukszo Klein
Sight Correction
Vision and Blindness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Chris Mounsey