The Body and the Arts Edited by: Corinne Saunders, Ulrika Maude and Jane Macnaughton The Body and the Arts focuses on the dynamic relation between the body and the arts: the body as inspiration, subject, symbol and medium. Contributors from a variety of academic and artistic disciplines explore this complex and shifting relation across a range of periods, literatures and other art forms, spanning the subjects of medicine, literature from the classical period to the present, and the visual and performing arts, including film, dance and opera. The book engages with enduring cultural issues: the materiality of the body, the tension between actual and ideal, beauty and horror, the interconnection of the history of medicine with the cultural history of the body, the complex process of negotiation between the actual human body and the artist, and the effect of science and technology on artistic representations of the body. The volume includes essays by Anthony Gormley, P.D. James and Marina Warner, and thirty images of Antony Gormley's work. Corrine Saunders is Professor of English Literature at the University of Durham, UK. She specializes in medieval literature and the history of ideas. Her publications include The Forest of Medieval Romance, Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England, two edited books on Chaucer, and A Companion to Romance. She has recently completed a new monograph, Magic in Medieval English Romance. Ulrika Maude is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Durham, UK. She is the author of Beckett, Technology and the Body and co-editor of Beckett and Phenomenology. Jane Macnaughton is Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities and Senior Lecturer in Medical Education at Durham University, UK. She is also a General Practitioner who currently works in gynaecology. Her main research interest is in medical humanities, especially literature and medicine, and she has published in this as well as in philosophy and medicine. Her books include Clinical Judgement: Evidence in Practice (with Robin Downie) and an edited volume (with Corinne Saunders), Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture.