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Introduction: body and text in the eighteenth century Veronica Kellyand Dorothea von Mucke; Part I. Discursive Shifts and Realignments: 1.The limping woman and the public sphere Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook; 2.Wit's breaks Neil Saccamano; 3. Lock's eyes, Swift's spectaclesVeronica Kelly; Part II. Technologies of Seeing: 4. The charm'd eyePeter de Bolla; 5. Overloaded portraits: the excesses of character andcountenance Deidre Lynch; 6. Cosmetic poetics: coloring faces in theeighteenth century Tassie Gwilliam; Part III. The Limits of the Body:7. The powers of horror and the magic of euphemism in Lessing's Laokoonand How the Ancients Represented Death Dorothea von Mucke; 8. Morphismsof the phantasmatic body: Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther DavidE. Wellbery; 9. Deconstruction of the hermeneutical body: Kleist andthe discourse of classical aesthetics Helmut J. Schneider; Part IV.Unnatural Bodies: 10. Goethe's Clavigo: the body as an unorthographicsign Susan Gustafson; 11. Disfiguring the victim's body in Sade'sJustine Thomas Dipiero; 12. Mrs Robinson and the masquerade ofwomanliness Chris Cullens; Notes; Index.