Twelve scholars from the fields of English, French, and German literature here examine the complex ways in which the human body becomes the privileged semiotic model through which eighteenth-century culture defines its political and conceptual centers. In making clear that the deployment of the body varies tremendously depending on what is meant by the 'human body', the essays draw on popular literature, poetics and aesthetics, garden architecture, physiognomy, beauty manuals, pornography and philosophy, as well as on canonical works in the genres of the novel and the drama.

Abstracts of dissertations and monographs in microform.

Includes entries for maps and atlases.

The series Lectures and Treatises on Slavic Studies, which has been published since 1980, offers opportunities for publication, especially for smaller monographs, which, in terms of their scope, are located between the journal article and the large book. It will cover topics from the whole area of ​​Slavic languages, literatures and cultures as well as their interrelations. In addition to investigations, bibliographies, research reports and editions are published. The authors of the previous volumes come from America, Canada, Germany, Finland, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary.