1. The Life of Breath: Contexts and Approaches, David Fuller, Jane Macnaughton, and Corinne Saunders.- 2. Pneumatic Episodes from Homer to Galen, A. A. Long.- 3. Our Common Breath: 'Conspiration' from the Stoics to the Church Fathers, Phillip Sidney Horky.- 4. Late Antique Cultures of Breath: Politics and the Holy Spirit, Thomas E. Hunt.- 5. From Romance to Vision: The Life of Breath in Medieval Literary Texts, Corinne Saunders.- 6. The Transformative Power of Breath: Music, Alternative Therapy, and Medieval Practices of Contemplation, Denis Renevey.- 7. A Breath of Fresh Air: Approaches to Environmental Health in Late Medieval Urban Communities, Carole Rawcliffe.- 8. 'Being Breathed': From King Lear to Clinical Medicine, Katherine A. Craik and Stephen J. Chapman.- 9. 'Let lovers sigh out the rest': Witnessing the Breath in the Early Modern Emotional Body, Naya Tsentourou.- 10. What is 'the breath of our nostrils'? Ruach and Neshamah in John Donne's 1622 Gunpowder Day Sermon, Patrick Gray.- 11. Breathscapes: Natural Environments in Eighteenth-Century Physiology and Psychosomatics of Breathing, Rina Knoeff.- 12. 'Spoken from the impulse of the moment': Epistolarity, Sensibility, and Breath in Frances Burney's Evelina, Gillian Skinner.- 13. 'Eloquence and Oracle': Tobacco in Eighteenth-Century Life and Literature, Andrew Russell.- 14. Romantic Consumption: The Paradox of Fashionable Breath, Clark Lawlor.- 15. Endless Breath? The Pipe Organ and Immortality, Francis O'Gorman.- 16. London Fog as Food: From Pabulum to Poison, Christine L. Corton.- 17. 'Now-for a breath I tarry': Breath, Desire and Queer Materialism at the fin de siècle, Fraser Riddell.- 18. The Forgotten Obvious: Breathing in Psychoanalysis, Arthur Rose and Oriana Walker.- 19. Mysterious Gear: Modernist Mountaineering, Oxygen Rigs, and the Politics of Breath, Abbie Garrington.- 20. Hearing the Form: Breath and the Structures of Poetry in Charles Olson and Paul Celan, David Fuller.- 21. A Panting Consciousness: Beckett, Breath, and Biocognitive Feedback, Marco Bernini.- 22. Syllabic Gasps: M. NourbeSe Philip and Charles Olson's Poetic Conspiration, Stefanie Heine.- 23. Visualising the Ephemeral, Jayne Wilton.- 24. Breath-as Subject, in Form, in Performance: An Interview with Michael Symmons Roberts., Michael Symmons Roberts, with David Fuller.- 25. Afterword. Breath-taking: Ethical Impulses for Breath Studies, Peter Adey.

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