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À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust), 64 phenomenology and, 135 – 36 A Rebours (Against Nature ) physical and mental deterioration, 140– 41 (Huysmans), 223 – 26 science of, 133 – 34 Adler, Alfred, 237 tension between youth and premature old Aesthetics of Ugliness (Rosenkranz), 151 age, 138 – 40 affect, 4, 8 , 230 – 42 ‘Alchemy of Suffering’ (Baudelaire), 222 allegorical affect, 236 – 37 Allard, James, 76 – 77 artist as ‘seer’, 238 Alleg, Henri, 120 – 21 autobiography and individual Anatomia Uteri Humani Gravida psychology, 235 (Hunter), 88 autonomy of art and a-subjective ‘Ancient Mariner’ (Coleridge), 151 affect, 231 – 33 Antiochus, 34 – 35 consciousness, 237 – 38 anti-rationalism, 7 controversy over ‘turn to affect’, 230 – 31 Aquinas, Thomas, 11 , 13 , 177 diffi culty of literary expression of, 240 – 41 Arboleda de los Enfermos (Teresa de disappearance of desire, 241 Cartagena), 24 – 26 , 27 – 28 ‘exteriority’ of writing, 235 – 38 Aristotle, 11, 177 , 180 , 181 , 230 , 242 as invented colors, 239 – 40 Arlington Park (Cusk), 96 Occasionalism, 235 Armstrong, Tim, 188 selfl ess self, 233 – 35 Arnold, Matthew, 151 Affect Theory Reader (Gregg and As You Like It (Shakespeare), 133 Siegworth), 230 Attainment (Ellis), 105 ageing, 6 , 132 – 45 Auerbach, Erich, 151 – 52 absence of from history of Aulagnier, Piera, 221 – 22 , 224 philosophy, 132 – 33 Aurora Leigh (Browning), 90 ageing body as other, 134 – 35 authoritarian construction of the body, 5 ambivalence and resentment expressed toward the aged, 137 – 39 Baars, Jan, 132 connotations of ripeness, 142 – 43 Babinski, Joseph, 206 dementia, 143 – 45 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 231 , 255 fear of, 134 – 35 Ballantyne, J. W., 98n1 immobility and the bedridden, 137– 39 Ballard, J. G., 226 , 250 menopause and sexuality, 142 – 43 Balzac, Honoré de, 139 – 40 ‘mirror stage’ in old age, 137 ‘Bantams in Pine-Woods’ (Stevens), 64 non-coincidence of two modalities of the Barker, Francis, 73 body, 136 Barney, Natalie, 110 opposing concepts associated with, 132 Barry, Elizabeth, 4 , 6 perplexity over concept of, 133 – 34 Baudelaire, Charles, 217 – 23 , 226

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Baudrillard, Jean, 2 , 254 Brontë, Patrick, 90 Bauer, Heike, 5 , 8 Brooks, Gwendolyn, 142 Bauman, H-Dirksen, 31 – 32 Brooks, Peter, 73 Bayley, John, 145 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 90 Beckett, Samuel Bruce, Scott G., 25 affect, 234 – 35 , 238 Bryher, H. D., 110 ageing, 134 – 35, 136 – 37 , 140 – 42 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 248 agency, 7 Burgwinkle, Bill, 5 , 6 , 8 , 48 neurology, 197 , 208 – 10 ‘Burnt Norton’ (Eliot), 120 Beer, Gillian, 106 Burroughs, William, 226 , 248 – 50 Being and Nothingness (Sartre), 237 ‘The Burrow’ (Kafka), 238 Being and Time (Heidegger), 135 Butler, Judith, 73 , 75 The Bell Jar (Plath), 94 – 95 Bynum, Caroline Walker, 13 The Belly of Paris (La ventre de Paris ) (Zola), 65 , 69 C (McCarthy), 226 Benjamin, Walter, 4 , 5 , 217 – 20 , 226 The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (fi lm), 207 Bennett, Andrew, 3 Caird, Mona, 110 Bennett, Arnold, 138 – 39 ‘Candles’ (Plath), 95 Bergson, Henri, 7, 207 , 208 , 209 cannibalism, 257 Berlant, Lauren, 67 , 231 The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 34 – 35 Bernays, Jakob, 242 ‘The Cap and the Bells’ (Keats), 82 – 83 Bernlef, J., 144 , 145 Cˇ apek, Karel, 252 Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud), 201, Carey, Peter, 68 – 69 217 – 18 , 224 Carmona, Richard, 61 Bichat, Marie François Xavier, 134 Carpenter, Edward, 107 – 8 biocybernetics, 254 Carver, Raymond, 66 – 68 Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon), 163, The Casual Vacancy (Rowling), 160 167 – 69 , 170 Catherine of Siena, 17 Blau, Herbert, 142 Cervantes, 64 Bleak House (Dickens), 96 – 97 Cézanne, Paul, 233 , 234 – 35 blindness, 33 – 34. See also disability The Chairs (Ionesco), 141 – 42 Bodel, Jean, 20 Chaplin, Charlie, 206 – 7 body, diffi culty in defi ning, 1 Chapman, George, 51 The Body in Pain (Scarry), 118 – 19 Charcot, Jean-Martin, 133 – 34 , 206– 7 Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Charles I, 17 , 49 Narrative (Brooks), 73 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 34 – 35 The Book of Margery Kempe ‘Che cos’è la poesia?’ (Derrida), 82 (Kempe), 35 – 36 Chekhov, Anton, 233 Botella, César, 221 – 22, Christianity, 1 , 5 225– 26 Bird Man of Yonec , 18 – 19 Botella, Sára, 221 – 22 , 225 –26 Damian on fl agellation, 13 – 15 Boucot, Louise-Jacques, 206 death and dying, 150 – 55 Bouillaud, Jean-Babtiste, 204 Doucelina and mortifi cation, 15 – 17 Bourdieu, Pierre, 2 emergence of Protestantism, 52 , 53 Bowen, John, 151 medieval ideas of embodiment, 5 , 11 – 12 Brantlinger, Patrick, 247– 48 ‘Circumfession’ (Derrida), 82 Break of Day (Colette), 142 – 43 Civilization and Its Discontents Breton lays, 17 (Freud), 185 – 86 Breuer, Josef, 214 – 15 , 242 Civitas veri sive morum (The City of Truth Bristow, Joseph, 108 or Morals ) (Del Bene), 181 Broca, Paul, 203 – 5 Cixous, Hélène, 2 Brontë, Charlotte, 155 , 198 Clinical Lectures on the Diseases of Ageing Brontë, Emily, 90 – 91 , 155 (Charcot), 133 – 34 262

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clones, 253 – 54 , 256 – 57 mourning and acknowledgement of Cloud Atlas (Mitchell), 255 death, 151 Cohen, Josh, 4 , 5 realistic and de-aestheticized death, 150 , Cohen, Laurence, 134 151 – 52 , 156 – 58 , 159 – 60 Coleridge, S. T., 81 , 151 symbolic and aestheticized death, 150 , Colette, 142 – 43 152 – 54 , 159 – 60 Collings, Ernest, 202 Victorian era treatment of, 149 – 51 , Coltrane, Robbie, 66 155 –56 , 159 – 60 Combe, George, 210n1 ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ (Tolstoy), 126 – 29 The Coming Race (Bulwer-Lytton), 248 Defence of Poetry (Shelley), 80 – 81 Commedia (Dante), 13 deformity, 36 – 37. See also disability ‘The Common Neurotic State’ (Freud), 216 Degeneration (Nordau), 208 Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de, 183 Del Bene, Bartolomeo, 181 ‘Congenial Horror’ (Baudelaire), 222 Deleuze, Gilles, 7, 201 , 231 – 41 Connor, Steven, 4 , 5 , 6 dementia, 143 – 45 consolatory treatises, 26 Demeny, Paul, 184 , 185 Coriolanus (Shakespeare), 49 – 50 Democritus, 180 Corpus (Nancy), 73 Derrida, Jacques, 73 – 75, 79 , 82 , 83 , 153 Cowper, William, 185 Desai, Kishwar, 98 Cracker (television show), 66 Descartes, René, 6, 117 , 124, 178 – 79 Crary, Jonathan, 186 – 87 Desiderius, 13 Crash (Ballard), 226 Deville, James, 197 Crooke, Helkiah, 42 Diary (Gide), 140 Cross, Victoria, 110 Dick, Philip K., 255 – 56 , 257 The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon), 226 Dickens, Charles, 64, 96 – 97 , 134 , 138 , 149 , cultural-materialist approaches, 2 150 , 151 , 155 – 56 , 159 – 60 , 198 The Culture of Pain (Morris), 116 , 120 Die Puppe ( Doll ) (fi lm), 207 Cusk, Rachel, 96 disability, 4, 6 , 24 – 38 cyborgs, 251 – 54 , 255 – 56 blindness, 33 – 34 cross-historical comparisons, 32 – 33 ‘Daddy’ (Plath), 95 deafness, 24 –26 , 28 – 32 Damasio, Antonio, 7 deformity, 36 – 37 Damian, Peter, 13 – 15, 21 –22 , 22n11 disability studies, 27 Danius, Sara, 187 embodied metaphors, 25 , 28– 32 Dante, 13 literary form and, 26 – 28 , 35 , 36 Darwin, Charles, 7, 103 , 199 – 200 , spatial discourse, 29 230 – 31 , 238 transition to as transformation, 30 – 31 The Daughters of Danaeus (Caird), 110 unverifi able sensory phenomena, 35 – 36 David Copperfi eld (Dickens), 64, used as literary ‘crutch’, 28 69 , 198 Dissemination (Derrida), 82 De Anima (Aristotle), 180 Divina Commedia (Dante), 116 De Beauvoir, Simone, 134, 136 , 137 , Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 141 – 42 , 145 (Dick), 255 – 56 , 257 de laude fl agellorum (Damian), 13 – 15 Doan, Laura, 108 , 111 – 12 De Sensu (Aristotle), 180 Dombey and Son (Dickens), 138 deafness, 24 – 26, 28 – 32. See also disability Donne, John, 41 , 42 , 44 death and dying, 149 – 60 Doucelina of Marseille, 15 – 17 , 21 as avoidable or necessity, 154 – 55 Dowling, Linda, 104 as beautiful, 149 – 51 Downing, Lisa, 101 denial of death, 150, 151 , 156 Dracula (Stoker), 150 – 51 Judaeo-Christian versus Hellenistic literary Dranem (Armand Ménard), 206 tradition, 150 – 55 ‘Dream Notebook’ (Beckett), 208 modernist treatment of, 150 – 51 , 156 – 59 Duc, Aimee, 108 – 9 263

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The Duchess of Malfi (Webster), 47 fat pornography, 60 – 61 Dumas, Alexandre, 149 , 151 fat-hatred, 60 ‘The Dying of Death’ (Jacobs), 150 love/hate relationship with fat, 62 –63 modern negative associations, 64– 65 Eagleton, Terry, 117 ‘obesity epidemic’ and ‘war on fat’, 58– 60 , East Lynne (Wood), 90 61 – 62, 69, 70n2 Eclogues (Virgil), 149 – 50 self-starvation, 58 ‘The Economic Problem of Masochism’ Shakespeare and, 62 – 63 (Freud), 220 short stories, 66 – 69 Eder, David, 202 yo-yo dieting, 61 – 62 Eder, Edith, 202 ‘The Fat Man in History’ (Carey), Elias, Norbert, 52 68 – 69 Eliot, George, 197, 200 – 1 , 210n1 Faulkner, William, 233 Eliot, T. S., 104 , 120 , 134 – 35 , 207 – 8 Fear and Trembling (Kierkegaard), 153 Ella and the Mothers (Morris), 97 Fechner, Gustav, 190 Ellis, Edith, 105 , 110 Felix Holt, the Radical (Eliot), 201 Ellis, Havelock, 104 – 5 , 107 – 8 , 109 feminism, 2 , 58 Ellmann, Maud, 4 , 5 ageing, 142 Enlightenment, 6, 47 – 48 , 163 , 252 eugenic feminism, 91 – 92 epidermalisation, 164 – 66 maternity, 92 – 93 Epstein, Jean, 206 – 7 ‘New Woman’ and sexual inversion, Erikson, Erik, 133 109 – 10 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding sexual rights and reforms, 105 (Locke), 177 Ferenczi, Sandor, 220 Ethics (Spinoza), 238 , 241 – 42 ‘A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste’ (Pound), 65 Eucharist, 12 , 13 , 18 Field, Michael. See Lee, Vernon eugenics, 91 – 92 , 105 Finding Time Again (Proust), 135 , 137 Eugenides, Jeffrey, 150 – 51 Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 206 Every Man Out of His Humour fl agellation, 13 – 15, 22n11 (Jonson), 50 – 52 The Flame Alphabet (Marcus), 226 – 27 Everyman (Roth), 132 , 140 – 41 Fletcher, John, 214 Exiles (Joyce), 240 – 41 Fliess, Wilhelm, 216 Exposition of the Signs and Symptoms of Florio, John, 44 Pregnancy (Montgomery), 89 Flotow, Friedrich von, 183 – 84 The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Fordyce, Joan, 145 Animals (Darwin), 230 – 31 , 238 Foucault, Michel, 2 , 101 Fox, Douglas, 89 fabliaux , 19 Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus Faerie Queene (Spenser), 46 , 181 – 82 (Shelley), 155 , 246 – 47 Fain, Michel, 221 – 22 ‘A Fratricide’ (Kafka), 156 – 57 Fanon, Frantz, 5 , 163 – 75 Freud, Sigmund, 74 , 237 – 38 Fantasia of the Unconscious (Lawrence), 202 affect, 242 Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds ageing, 133 , 137, 140 , 145 (Warner), 247 death and dying, 159 – 60 ‘Fat’ (Carver), 66 – 68 maternity, 94 fat and obesity, 5 , 58 – 70 neurology, 201 , 206 association with comedy and life, 64 psychoanalysis, 214 – 18 , 220 – 21 , 224 , association with wordiness and 225 , 227 verbosity, 63 – 64 race, 164 , 169 , 170 eating as ‘dirty little secret’, 60 –61 sensory perception, 185 – 86 eating disorders, 58 sexuality, 108 economics of, 59 – 60 ‘Freud and Literature’ (Trilling), 215 fat literary detectives, 65 – 66 From an Abandoned Work (Beckett), 137 264

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Fundamental Features of Aristotle’s Lost Henry IV (Shakespeare), 58 , 62 – 63 Treatise on the Effects of Tragedy Henry V (Shakespeare), 50 – 52 (Bernays), 242 ‘Herbert West – Reanimator’ (Lovecraft), 249 Gall, Franz Joseph, 197 – 98, 199 , 203 , 204 Herland (Gilman), 93 Genesis , 152 – 53 Hesiod, 246 Geriatrics (Nascher), 134 Hey Yeah Right Get a Life (Simpson), 96 Geulincx, Arnold, 235 Highmore, Ben, 130n10 Gide, André, 140 Hirsch, Marianne, 96 The Gift of Death (Derrida), 153 Hirschfeld, Magnus, 105 Gilles de la Tourette, Georges, 206 Hobgood, Alison, 37 Gillies, John, 45 Holm, Søren, 253 – 54 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 93 Homer, 151 – 52 Gilman, Sander, 4 Hopper, Edward, 66 Gilman, Sandor, 65 Hsy, Jonathan, 4 Girard, René, 153 Hugue de Digne, 15 The Golden Bowl (James), 63 – 64 Humanism, 1 , 175 Goodman, John, 66 Hume, David, 178 – 79 , 182 Gospels, 116 , 153 –54 humorality, 41 – 42, 43 , 44 , 48 , 50 – 52 Gower, John, 28 , 33 – 34 The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Graham, Thomas, 90 Imprisonment (Ellmann), 58 Grand, Sarah, 91 – 92 , 109 – 10 Hunter, William, 88 Grant, Linda, 143 – 44 Husserl, Edmund, 2 Great Expectations (Dickens), 134, 138 , 198 Huxley, Aldous, 150 ‘The Great God Pan’ (Machen), 248 Huysmans, J.-K., 223 – 26 Greenberg, Clement, 233 hysteria, 91 – 92 , 207 – 8 Greenhalgh, Susan, 59 , 61 ‘Hysteria’ (Eliot), 207 – 8 Gregg, Melissa, 230 Grossberg, Lawrence, 231 ‘I Sing the Body Electric’ (Whitman), 10 , 188 Guattari, Felix, 231 – 41 Ibn Tufayl, Abu Bakr, 182 – 83 The Guermantes Way (Proust), 136 identity politics, 2 The Iliad (Homer), 116 , 151 – 52 Hall, Radclyffe, 108 – 9 , 110 – 11 ‘In a Station of the Metro’ (Pound), 65 Hamilton, Alexander, 88 ‘In the Penal Colony’ (Kafka), 157 – 58 Hamlet (Shakespeare), 47, 52 – 53 , 63 , 116 Infi nite Jest (Wallace), 226 Hanson, Clare, 5 , 8 Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (Freud), Haraway, Donna, 252 220 , 227 Hardy, Barbara, 107 The Inhuman (Lyotard), 255 Hardy, Thomas, 233 Ionesco, Eugene, 141 – 42 Harris, Jonathan Gil, 49 Irigaray, Luce, 2 Harvey, William, 48 Ishiguro, Kazuo, 256 – 57 Haslam, David, 60 The Island of Doctor Moreau (Wells), 248 Haslam, Fiona, 60 isolation Haualand, Hilde, 31 imposed by deafness, 24 – 25 , 29 Hayles, Katherine, 251 isolating nature of pain, 118 – 19, 126 Hayy ibn Yaqzan (Alive, Son of Aware ) (Ibn maternity and, 89 – 90 Tufayl), 182 – 83 The Heavenly Twins (Grand), Jacobs, Joseph, 150 91 – 92 , 109 – 10 James, Henry, 63 – 64 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 151 James, William, 206 Heidegger, Martin, 135 –36 , 237 Jameson, Fredric, 2 , 187 ‘Heidegger’s Hand’ (Derrida), 82 Jane Eyre (Brontë), 155 Heine, Heinrich, 151 Janet, Pierre, 206 , 237 265

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Jerome, Jerome K., 123 – 24 Larkin, Philip, 141 Jesus Christ, 12 , 153 – 54 Larson, John Augustus, 189 Jones, Anne Rosalind, 51 – 52 Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Jones, Ernest, 241 Comic (Bergson), 207 Jonson, Ben, 51 Lawrence, D. H., 7, 60 , 111 , 121 – 23 , Jowitt, Benjamin, 104 197 , 202 – 3 Joyce, James, 8, 63 , 97 , 111 , 183 – 84 , 205 – 6 , Le Sohait des vez (Bodel), 20 234 , 240 – 41 ‘Le Tic’ (‘The Spasm’) (Maupassant), 207 Juárez, Encarnación, 28 Leavis, F. R., 151 Lee, Christina, 33 Kafka, Franz, 156 – 58, 236 , 238 , 242 Lee, Vernon, 104 , 110 Kafka: Toward a Theory of Minor Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil ) Literature (Deleuze and (Baudelaire), 217 Guattari), 239 Les quatre sohais Saint Martin , 20 – 21 Katz, Stephen, 133 Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 230 – 31 Keats, John, 81 – 83 The Lesson (Ionesco), 141 – 42 Kempe, Margery, 35 – 36 Leverson, Ada, 110 Kierkegaard, Søren, 153 levitation, 16 – 17 King, Peter, 11 Levy, Amy, 110 King Lear (Shakespeare), 133 , 142 Lewes, George Henry, 200 Kittler, Friedrich, 187 , 193 Leys, Ruth, 230 Klaver, Claudia C., 90 L’Inconnue de la Seine , 149 Kleist, Heinrich Von, 235 Lindee, M. Susan, 253 Koop, C. Everett, 70n2 Lingua (play), 182 Kostihová, Marcela, 37 literature, 1 – 8 Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 8, 105 , 106 – 7 , bodies’ need for other bodies, 6 108 , 109 , 124 body as locus of socio-political Krapp’s Last Tape (Beckett), 136 – 37 resistance, 6 Kristeva, Julia, 94, 95 – 96 , 221 – 22 continuities in conceptualisations of Kulich, Don, 61 embodiment over centuries, 6 deconstruction of myths of the body, 5 La Dame aux camellias (Dumas), 149 deep kinships between literature and the La damoisele qui sonjoit , 19 body, 4 – 5 La Recherche (Proust), 236 – 37 move away from dualist conceptions of Lacan, Jacques, 15, 22n10 , 164 , 167 , 170 , the self, 7 221, 237 – 38 , 241 – 42 origin of interest in literary representations lactifi cation, 165 , 174 of the body, 2 Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence), 111 representation of and contribution to language and embodiment, 73 – 83 embodied experience, 1 – 2 , 3 –4 act of composition, 80 – 82 theoretical pluralism in contemporary deconstruction of Western metaphysics of approaches to literary representations of presence, 73 – 75 the body, 2 – 3 diffi culty of interaction between body Little Dorrit (Dickens), 138 and, 73 Llewelyn Davies, Margaret, 92 – 93, 99n15 logocentrism, 74 – 75 Locke, John, 177 , 182 presence and disembodiment, 77 –78 logocentrism, 74 – 75 quality of sensibility, 76 – 77 Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe), 235 Romanticism and mind/soul/body Love Story (Segal), 150 question, 76 – 83 Lovecraft, H. P., 248 – 49 speech versus writing, 73 – 75 Lubitsch, Ernst, 207 tactile and touch, 82 – 83 L’Uranisme: Inversion sexuelle congénitale Laplanche, Jean, 221 (Raffalovich), 109 Largier, Niklaus, 22n11 ‘Lust and Rage’ (Yeats), 132 266

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Lyotard, Jean-François, 255 McCaffery, Margo, 118, 119 , 121 Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth), 77 , 80 McCarthy, Cormac, 257 McCarthy, Tom, 226 Macbeth (Shakespeare), 43 , 178 McGann, Jerome, 76 MacCormack, Patrick, 247 McLuhan, Marshall, 186 Machen, Arthur, 248 medicine, 1, 7 , 44 – 45 , 53 – 54 Machiavelli, 49 ageing, 133 – 34 ‘Magi’ (Plath), 95 assisted reproduction, 97 – 98 The Magic Mountain (Mann), 158 – 59 defi ning pain, 117 – 18 Malebranche, Nicolas, 235 genetic engineering and clones, Malone Dies (Beckett), 140 253 – 54 , 256– 57 Malthus, Thomas, 88 obstetrics, 87 – 88 ‘The Man of the Crowd’ (Poe), 218 medieval embodiment, 5 , 6 , 8 , 10 – 22 , 48 ‘Manifesto for Cyborgs’ (Haraway), 252 Bird Man of Yonec and Mann, Thomas, 4 , 158 – 59 transformation, 17 – 19 Marcus, Ben, 226 – 27 body as essential to spiritual Marey, Étienne-Jules, 207 perfection, 11 – 12 Margins of Philosophy (Derrida), 82 Damian and fl agellation, 13 – 15, 22n11 Marionettentheater (Kleist), 235 Doucelina and mortifi cation, 15 – 17 Marius the Epicurean (Pater), 104 fabliaux and fetishised eroticism, 19 – 21 ‘Marriage’ (Caird), 110 identity and, 21 – 22 Marriott, David, 5 malleability of the body, 21 – 22 Marshall, Cynthia, 46 mind/body/soul distinction, 10 – 11 Martha (Flotow), 183 – 84 pain, 121 Marty, Pierre, 221 – 22 ‘Medusa’ (Plath), 95 Mary, 12 Méliès, Georges, 207 masochism, 220 – 21 , 222– 23 Melville, Herman, 233 , 234 –35 Massumi, Brian, 231 Melzack, Ronald, 124 maternity, 5, 6 , 8 , 94 – 98 menopause, 142 – 43 abjection, 95 – 96 Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), 51 assisted reproduction, 97 – 98, 100n30 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 2 , 7, 75 development of obstetrics, 87 –88 ageing, 135 – 36, 140 , 144 – 45 eugenic feminism, 91 – 92 pain, 124 as exclusively female affair, 93 The Merry Wives of Windsor female- and male-authored texts, 96– 97 (Shakespeare), 62 – 63 as fi lter, 91 , 95 Metamorphoses (Ovid), 43 – 44 , 247 gendered notions of relationship between Microcosmographia (Crooke), 42 individual and state, 88 – 89 Middlemarch (Eliot), 200 – 1 heredity and degeneration, 91 –92 Midnight’s Children (Rushdie), 97 hysteria, 91 – 92 Miller, Henry, 235 maternal health care, 92 – 93 Mimesis (Auerbach), 151 – 52 maternal impressions, 88 – 89 mind pregnancy as shock or trauma, 93 –94 ageing and, 136 properties of, 87 dementia, 143 – 45 psychoanalytic models of mind/body distinction and speech versus motherhood, 94 – 95 writing, 74 puerperal insanity, 89 – 91 mind/body distinction in Renaissance Maternity: Letters from Working Women thought, 42 , 46 (Davies), 92 – 93, 99n15 mind/sensory relationship, 177 – 78 , 183 – 84 Matter and Memory (Bergson), 209 transformation of mental processes into Maudsley, Henry, 92 embodied action, 25 Maupassant, Guy de, 69 , 207 Mitchell, David, 28 , 255 Mauss, Marcel, 2 Mitchell, W. J. T., 31 267

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Moby Dick (Melville), 234 – 35 Norton Anthology of English Modern Domestic Medicine (Graham), 90 Literature, 82 – 83 Moll, Albert, 105 Not I (Beckett), 197 , 209 – 10 Molloy (Beckett), 140 , 141 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Money-Kyrle, Roger, 189 (Rilke), 149 The Monk’s Tale (Chaucer), 34 – 35 Montaigne, Michel de, 43 obesity. See fat and obesity Montgomery, W. F., 89 obstetrics. See maternity Moon, Michael, 60 Occasionalism, 235 Moore, Olive, 93 – 94 ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ (Keats), 81 – 82 Morris, David, 116 , 120 Of Grammatology (Derrida), 74 , 82 Morris, Rachel, 97 Old Age (de Beauvoir), 134 , 136 , 137 , 141 mortifi cation, 13 – 17 , 121 The Old Boys (Trevor), 135 Mrs Dalloway (Woolf), 142 – 43 , 233 – 34 The Old Curiosity Shop (Dickens), 135, 149 , Mullaney, Steven, 45 150 , 151 , 155 – 56 Mumford, Lewis, 189 – 90 ‘The Old Fools’ (Larkin), 141 Munroe, Alice, 135 Old Man Goriot (Balzac), 139 Muntean, Nick, 251 The Old Wives’ Tale (Bennett), 138 – 39 Murdoch, Iris, 145 On Being Ill (Woolf), 118 – 19 , 136 Murphet, Julian, 192 On Touching (Derrida), 82 Murphy (Beckett), 234 , 238 Ong, Walter, 186 Orbach, Susie, 61 Naked Lunch (Burroughs), 226 , 249 – 50 The Origin of Species (Darwin), 7 , 199 – 200 Nancy, Jean-Luc, 3, 73 , 75 , 76 , 79 , 82 – 83 Origins of Love, 98 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Orlando (Woolf), 8, 110 , 235 – 36 Nantucket (Poe), 218 Oswalda, Ossi, 207 Nascher, L. L., 134 Othello (Shakespeare), 239 – 40 Natural History (Pliny the Elder), 180 ‘Otobiographies’ (Derrida), 82 Nebuchadnezzar, 34 Out of Mind (Bernlef), 144 Nelkin, Dorothy, 253 Ovid, 43 – 44 , 247 The Nero Wolfe Cookbook (Stout), 66 Owen, Wilfred, 156 neurology, 7 , 197 – 210 aphasiology, 203 – 5 pain and violence, 116 – 29 automatisms, 209 – 10 aesthetic responsiveness and desire for autonomy of nervous system, 199– 200 pain, 125 – 26 consciousness, 199 – 201 , 202 – 3 contextual nature of pain, defi nition of term, 197 121 – 22 , 124 – 26 hysteria and neurological disorders as deceptiveness, 122 – 23 fashionable, 207 – 8 destruction of meaning and, 120 infl uence on cinema, 206 – 7 destruction of relationships and, 120 infl uence on comedy, 206 – 7 diffuse nature of concept of intentionality, 199, 200 – 1 , 205 – 6 violence, 116 – 17 interest in brain and nervous system, 197 elusive nature of concept of pain, 117– 18 localisation theory, 197 – 98 fostering of closeness through care multiplicity of self, 198 – 99 giving, 127 – 28 phrenology and physiognomy, 198 illness, 119 Tourette’s syndrome, 208 – 9 incompatibility of pain and mannered Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro), 256 – 57 gentility, 127 Newman, Barnett, 156 isolating nature of pain, 118 – 19 ‘The Nightingale; A Conversational Poem’ neuromatrix theory of pain, 124 , 130n20 (Coleridge), 81 pain as extra-linguistic experience, Nordau, Max, 91 , 208 119 – 20 , 127

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pain as source of testimony, 123 –24 humans as insignifi cant and self-deceiving pain as wholly different experience, 126 species, 248 – 49 personal nature of pain, 118 monstrosity as human quality, 248 –49 physicality of, 118 , 119 mythological posthumanism, 246 – 51 plasticity of cultural standing of, 121 as other, 245 – 51 revelatory quality of pain, 128 post-generic archetypes, 254 – 58 torture, 120 – 21 Promethean narrative, 247 as vehicle for emotional and imaginative science-based focus, 245 content, 125 – 26 technological posthumanism, 251– 54 ‘The Parable of The Old Man And The viral theory of evolution, 249 – 50 Young’ (Owen), 156 zombie mythology, 250 – 51, Parker, Patricia, 63 257 – 58 Paster, Gail Kern, 51 Potmeˇšil, Jan, 37 Pater, Walter, 104 Pound, Ezra, 65 ‘Percept, Affect and Concept’ (Deleuze and pregnancy. See maternity Guattari), 231 The Prelude (Wordsworth), 80 – 82 Pessoa, Fernando, 233 ‘The Premature Burial’ (Poe), 218 petrifi cation, 166 – 69 Principles of Philosophy (Descartes), 117 phenomenological approaches, 2, 36, 37, 54, Problems of Life and Mind (Lewes), 200 75 , 237 Prochaska, Georg, 199 Philoctetes (Sophocles), 123 Protagoras (Plato), 246 Philosophus Autodidactus (Ibn Tufayl), 182 Proust, Marcel, 7 , 64 , 135 , 136 , 137 , 233 , phrenology and physiognomy, 198 236 – 37 , 239 Physiology of Common Life (Lewes), 200 Proust and Signs (Deleuze), 236 – 37 , 239 The Pickwick Papers (Dickens), 64 , 69 psychoanalysis, 214 – 27 The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde), Baudelaire and, 217 – 23 109 , 198 bodily symptoms, 214 – 15 , 216 Pinker, Steven, 117 border between excitability and Plath, Sylvia, 94 – 95 exhaustion, 223 – 26 Plato, 15, 104 , 246 debilitation by shock of communicative Pliny the Elder, 180 excess, 226 – 27 Pococke, Edward, 182 ‘desire of non-desire’, 224 Poe, Edgar Allan, 218 Freud and, 214 – 17 The Poetics of Sensibility (McGann), 76 Huysmans and, 223 – 26 polygraph (lie-detector), 189 masochism, 220 – 21 , 222 – 23 Pontalis, J. B., 133 ‘psychoneuroses’ versus ‘actual’ neuroses, ‘Poor Susan’ (Wordsworth), 81 214 , 215 – 17 , 223 The Poorhouse Fair (Updike), 135 sexual imagery, 220 , 225 – 26 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man shock, 217 – 20 (Joyce), 205 , 241 trauma of non-representation, 221– 22 posthumanism, 8 , 245 – 58 verbal interpretation, 215 atavistic posthumanism, 251 Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious ‘Beast Folk’, 248 (Lawrence), 202 biocybernetics, 254 Psychopathia Sexualis (Krafft-Ebing), 105 , cannibalism, 257 106 , 107, 108 , 109 , 124 cybernetic theory and cyborgs, ‘The Psycho-Physical Apparatus’ 251 – 54 , 255 – 56 (Money-Kyrle), 189 diffi culty of defi ning, 245 puerperal insanity, 89 – 91 extropian theories, 252 Pynchon, Thomas, 226 genetic engineering and clones, 253 – 54 , 256 – 57 The Question (Alleg), 120 – 21

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R. U. R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots ) Richardson, Alan, 76 – 83 (Cˇ apek), 252 Ricoeur, Paul, 7 Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 4 , 8 Rilke, Rainer Maria, 149 , 159 –60 Rabelais, François, 231 Rimbaud, Arthur, 5 , 184 , 185 , 187 – 88 , 223 race, 5 , 6 , 163 – 75 Rivera-Cordero, Victoria, 29 colonialism, 166 – 73 The Road (McCarthy), 257 epidermalisation, 164 – 66 Rogers, Pat, 64 imagoes, 165 – 66 , 171 – 72 The Romantic Ideology (McGann), 76 internalization of imago while trying to Romanticism, 76 – 83 conceal or reject it, 174 – 75 Romanticism: An Anthology , 82 – 83 lactifi cation, 165 , 174 Rosenkranz, Karl, 151 mirroring, 165 Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk, 90 narcissism, 169 – 73 Roth, Philip, 132 , 140 – 41 negrophobia, 165 – 66 , 174 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 75 petrifi cation, 166– 69 Rowling, J. K., 160 phobias, 164, 165 – 66 , 171 – 72 Ruddick, Sara, 93 psycholanalytic perspectives, 168 Rushdie, Salman, 97 revolution and liberation, 167 – 68, 174 –75 Ryan, Vanessa L., 202 – 3 rupture between corporeal and epidermal, 164 Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von, 107 , 124 –26 sociogeny, 169 – 73 Sade, Marquis de, 107 theory of the gaze, 165 – 66 sadism, 107 , 124 – 26 as unconscious, fetishised symbol, 174 ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ (Yeats), 134 – 35 white message, 174 – 75 Salome, Lou Andreas, 159 – 60 Radden, Jennifer, 145 Sampson, 34 Raffalovich, Marc-André, 109 Sanger, Margaret, 105 Raines, Melissa Anne, 201 Sarton, May, 133 Ramachandran, Vilinur, 124 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 2, 166 , 237 – 38 Rancière, Jacques, 186 , 231 Savage, Carolyn, 97 relics, 12 , 13 Scarry, Elaine, 118 – 20, 121 , 126 , 129 , 217 Remind Me Who I Am Again Schaffner, Anna Katharina, 108 (Grant), 143 – 44 Schneider, Alan, 210 Renaissance embodiment, 6 , 41 –54 Schreiner, Olive, 110 body as mystical entity or sacred science, 1 , 7 , 44 – 45 , 48 , 53 – 54. See also matrix, 48 – 49 medicine ; technology clothing and the body, 51 – 52 ageing, 133 – 34 controlling versus embracing passions, 44 assisted reproduction, 97 – 98 differentiation of genders, 43 – 44 posthumanism, 245 divinely-imbued body versus sinful science fi ction. See posthumanism fl esh, 47 ‘ Sed non satiata ’ (Baudelaire), 220 emergence of modern subjectivity, 52 – 53 Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 102 , 108 gradual shift away from, 44 – 45 Segal, Erich, 150 , 151 humorality, 41 – 42, 43 , 44 , 48 , 50 – 52 Seidenspinner-Nuñez, Dayle, 31 maternal body, 87 self-starvation, 58 organic body politic, 49 – 50 Selleck, Nancy, 50 personhood, 42 – 43 sensory perception, 4 , 5 , 177 – 93 relation between language and the disorderly and disordering nature of body, 46 – 47 senses, 184 – 85 theatre and, 46 – 53 electricity and, 188 use of word ‘spirit’, 41 mechanical sensitivity, 189 – 90 Rey, Roselyne, 117 , 123 mind/sensory relationship, Reynolds, Jack, 75 177 – 78 , 183 – 84 Richard III (Shakespeare), 36 – 37 , 48 –49 ordering of senses, 180 , 186 270

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origin and growth of sensory Siegworth, Gregory, 230 perception, 182 – 83 signing cultures and sign languages, 30 – 32 as principle of order that reverses slide Signs, Disorders and Management of into entropic indifference, 192 Pregnancy (Fox), 89 ranking of senses, 180 – 81 silence, 4 reassimilation of externalised capacities imposed by blindness, 33 – 34 through technique and habits, 190 imposed by deafness, 24 – 26 , 30– 31 remote sensing technologies, 191 – 92 as spiritual discipline, 25 representation of sensory Simpson, Helen, 96 experience, 179 – 80 Sind Es Frauen? Roman Über das Dritte self and perception, 178 – 79 Geschlect (Duc), 108 – 9 senses as doors and conduits, 181 Sixth Meditation (Descartes), 6 separation and mingling of senses, 187– 88 Sketch of a Theory of Emotions (Sartre), 237 ‘shell shock’, 189 Small, Helen, 132 , 135 , 139 subdivision of forms of perception, 191 Smellie, William, 88 synaesthesia, 187 – 88 Smith, Adam, 88 technography, 191 Smith, Charlotte, 89 technological and psychological use of Snyder, Sharon L., 28 term ‘apparatus’, 189 Soler, Colette, 242 technological extension and Sons and Lovers (Lawrence), 121 – 23 externalisation of, 185 – 93 Sophocles, 123 X-rays and, 188– 89 soul Serres, Michel, 190 , 192 body/soul distinction and same-sex Sexton, Anne, 94 sexuality, 103 Sexual Inversion (Symonds and Ellis), 104 – 5, body/soul distinction and speech versus 107 – 8 , 109 writing, 74 sexuality, 5, 8 , 101 – 12 body/soul distinction in medieval case studies, 107 – 8 thought, 10 – 11 development of sexology, 102 –6 body/soul distinction in Renaissance fabliaux , 19 – 21 thought, 42 female, 104, 105 , 109 – 10 Damian on fl agellation, 14 literary inspiration for sexology, 106 –8 Doucelina and mortifi cation, 17 modern conceptualization of, 101– 2 Renaissance era use of word question of how to study, 111 –12 ‘spirit’, 41 sadism and masochism, 107 , 124 – 26 Speculum Maius (Vincent of Beauvais), 181 same-sex terminology and concepts, Spenser, Edmund, 46, 133 , 181 – 82 102 – 6 , 109 Spinoza, Benedict de, 238, 240 , 241 – 42 sexological inspiration for Spleen (Moore), 93 – 94 literature, 108 – 11 Spurzheim, Johann Gaspar, 199 sexual inversion, 103 , 109 –10 Stallybrass, Peter, 51 – 52 Shakespeare, William Stations of the Cross (Newman), 156 affect, 239 – 40 Stein, Gertrude, 110 ageing, 133 Stekel, Wilhelm, 237 disability, 36 – 37 Sterne, Jonathan, 190 fat, 58 , 62 – 63 Sterne, Laurence, 97 Renaissance embodiment, 43, 45 , Stevens, Wallace, 64 47 , 48 – 53 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 198 sensory perception, 178 Stoker, Bram, 150 – 51 Sheehan, Paul, 8 Stopes, Marie, 105 Shelley, Mary, 155 , 246 – 47 The Story of an African Farm Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 80 –81 (Schreiner), 110 The Shepheardes Calendar (Spenser), 133 Stout, Rex, 65 – 66 Shriver, Lionel, 69 Strachey, James, 215 271