New literary history Vol. 37, No. 3 Summer 2006

Special Issue: Reading and Healing

Stock, Brian.
Minds, Bodies, Readers:
I. Healing, Meditation, and the History of Reading
II. Healers without Books, Readers without Souls
III. Clinical Therapies, Readerly Mentalities

Lyons, John D.
Meditation and the Inner Voice

Morris, David B.
Reading Is Always Biocultural

Mattingly, Cheryl,
Reading Medicine: Mind, Body, and Meditation in One Interpretive Community

Kirmayer, Laurence J.
Toward a Medicine of the Imagination

Bleich, David.
The Materiality of Reading

Lerer, Seth
"Thy Life to Mend, This Book Attend": Reading and Healing in the Arc of Children's Literature

Stock, Brian
Commentary: Reading and Healing

Livingston, Eric.
The Textuality of Pleasure

Orr, Gregory
Praxiteles and the Shapes of Grief