Novel bodies disability and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature
Novel Bodies examines how disability shapes the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century novelists represent disability and sexuality in flexible ways to reconfigure the political and social landscapes of eighteenth-century Britain. In imagining the liv...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lewisburg, PA :
Bucknell University
2019.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42570864*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: disability and the literary history of sexuality. Deaf education and queerness in the Duncan Campbell Compendium (1720-1732)
- The reforming bodies of Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) and Sarah Scott's fiction (1754-66)
- Chronic illness, medicine, and the healthy marriages of Tobias Smollett's The expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
- Gendered disfigurement and queer ocular relations in Frances Burney's Camilla (1796) and Maria Edgeworth's Belinda (1801)
- Coda: hypochondria and the implausibility of heterosexual romance in Jane Austen's Sanditon (1807).
