Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-222) and index
Montaigne's scriptorial bodies: experience, sexuality, style -- Emblematic legacies: regendering the hieroglyphs of desire -- The automaton as virtual model: anatomy, technology, ant the inhuman -- Spectral metaphysics: errant bodies and bodies in error -- Incorporations: royal power, or the social body in Corneille's The Cid -- Men-machines -- Sex at the limits of representation