Literature and the body essays on populations and persons - Scarry, Elaine (Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988)
The rape of narrative and the narrative of rape / Mieke Bal -- Donne after love / Christopher Ricks -- Donne, "but yet the body is his booke" / Elaine Scarry -- Malthus, Godwin, Wordsworth, and the spirit of solitude / Frances Ferguson -- Setting Byron straight / Jerome Christensen -- Domesticating "virtue" / Caroll Smith-Rosenberg -- The souls of white folk / Walter Benn Michaels.
Includes bibliographies.
Keywords: English literature -- History and criticism; American literature -- History and criticism; Body, Human, in literature; Fertility, Human, in literature; Population in literature