Imagination and Performing Bodies

Imagination, corps et performance

Edited by Elizabeth Claire Edited by Beatrice Delaurenti

Book cover: Imagination and Performing Bodies

Extent: 300 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Series: Techniques, Imagination, and the Body

Series volume number: 18

Language: English

Hardback (Forthcoming)

(June 2026)

ISBN: 9782503617039

Price: $94.00

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This edited collection of historical scholarship examines various theories of corporeal perception issuing from natural philosophy, medicine, aesthetics, and performance to explore understandings of the material powers of the imagination as a force for action, liberty, invention, contagion and cure.


This book of historical scholarship examines theories of corporeal perception at work in natural philosophy, medicine, aesthetics, and performance to explore the material powers of the imagination as a force for action, liberty, invention, contagion and cure.

  • Edited by Elizabeth Claire
  • Edited by Beatrice Delaurenti