The Recovery of Beauty : Arts, Culture, Medicine /: Arts, Culture, Medicine. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton, David Fuller.
• Editors: Saunders, Corinne J, 1963-; Macnaughton, Jane; Fuller, David, 1947-
• 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 <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">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<SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"> Toby's Room and Louisa Young's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">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
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (310 pages), (32 illustrations)
• Subjects: 700/.4561; Aesthetics; Aesthetics; Criticism & Theory; General; European/General; Literature: history & criticism; Philosophy: aesthetics; Dance & other performing arts; Literary studies: general; Beauty, Personal, in literature; Beauty, Personal, in art; Beauty culture -- History; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in art; Criticism & Theory; General; European/General; Literature: history & criticism; Philosophy: aesthetics; Dance & other performing arts; Literary studies: general
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137426758; 1137426756; 9781137426741; 1137426748
• Related ISBNs: 9781137426734; 113742673X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.