BODY CRITICISM

Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine

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Barbara Maria Stafford

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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84

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120

2 ABSTRACTING 5 MAGNIFYING

Systems of Epitomization

Wounds of Experience

Distracting Styles of Pain

Patterns of Inferiority

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158

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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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417

437

450

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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