This collection of essays explores the ways that medieval and pre-modern literature, theology, and art utilised representations of the human body and its fluids

From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this volume examines how human bodily fluids influenced ideas about gender, sexu

This book explores the importance of bodily fluids to the development of medical knowledge in the eighteenth century. While the historiography has focused on th

Taking in works from writers as diverse as William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Charlotte Brontë, John Keats, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence, this book span

This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may r