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BODY CRITICISM
Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine
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Barbara Maria Stafford
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CONTENTS List of Illustrations vii
PREFACE xvi
INTRODUCTION:
The Visualization of Knowledge
Somatic Metaphors
Antinomies
Hunting for Method
Surface or Depth
Picture and Text
1 DISSECTING
Searching Operations
Physiognomics,or Corporeal Connoisseurship
The Calculation of Incongruity
Pathognomics,or the Pursuit of Looks
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2 ABSTRACTING 5 MAGNIFYING
Systems of Epitomization
Wounds of Experience
Distracting Styles of Pain
Patterns of Inferiority
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Microscopic Seers
Visual Quackery
Dream Projections
Free to Be False
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3 CONCEIVING 6 SENSING
Barbarisms,or Strangeness Incarnate
"Brain-Born Images"
Breeding for Difference
Grotesques, or Ars Combinatoria
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A Finer Touch
Mental Meteorology
Fluid Phantoms
Communicable Feelings
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4 MARKING
Contagious Pointillism 281
Stains of Desire 306
"Like a Shadow on the Skin" 319
Romantic Misfits 329
CONCLUSION:
The Aesthetics of Almost 465
NOTES 480
SELECTEDBIBLIOGRAPHY 534
INDEX 574
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